Scientists say they have found the first evidence that giant sea reptiles – which lived at the same time as dinosaurs – gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs. They say a 78 million-year-old fossil of a pregnant plesiosaur suggests they gave birth to single, large young. Writing in Science, they say […]
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Eyes of an Ancient Predator Had 16,000 Lenses
January 1st, 2012 
riffin Anomalocaris was a squidlike predator with grasping claws that lived more than 500 million years ago. Now paleontologists from Australia have found a pair of fossilized eyes belonging to the creature. To say the least, the discovery supports the theory that it was a highly visual predator. The researchers report that anomalocaris had extraordinarily complex […]
