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Browse through our ever-growing collection of the Strange, the Bizarre, and the Weird from Pangaea!

Cool Reads Scientists create Chicken-Dinosaur-hybrid-snout
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It has long been understood that birds evolved from dinosaurs; scientists have discovered many similarities including feathers, the power of flight and clawed feet. However there was one major difference between dinosaurs and prehistoric birds, and the modern birds we have today; the beak. It is such an important feature…

Cool Reads Chilean-Jigsaw-Chilesaurus-diegosuarezi
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A recent discovery from Chile has had paleontologists stumped! A young boy came home one day and showed his parents a collection of fossils he had found. Initially thought to be from several different types of dinosaurs, scientists started digging nearby and soon discovered over a dozen skeletons – but…

Dino Gallery_Cuties Sharovipteryx
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Sharovipteryx was unique – it was one of the first reptiles to take to the air. Unlike the famous pterosaurs, Sharovipteryx wasn’t capable of powered flight (taking off from the ground) but only gliding from branch to branch, much like the gliding lizards of today.

Cool Reads mummified trees
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Researchers in Ellesmere Port, an island off the coast of Canada, have made an amazing discovery. Buried underground within layers of sedimentary rock, an entire fossilised forest has been preserved! They measured the stumps and found out that the trees would have been about 1.8 meters high and they were…

Cool Reads Penguins-had-wings-antarctica
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So you’ve travelled back in time, 16 million year back to be exact, and landed on the continent that will become Antarctica. Stepping out of your time machine, you are stunned to see leafy green shrubbery, deer frolicking in the grass and not an iceberg in sight. A squawking erupts…

Cool Reads vegetation-in-prehistoric-Antarctica
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People talk about climate change and how it is changing our planet, but did you know that periods of global warming have occurred before? The Miocene period, was one of these times. During this period the temperature in Antarctica could reach 45˚F (7˚C). Not sunbathing weather, but much warmer than the…

Cool Reads Phorusrhacid terror bird sings Figaro
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We all know that fossils and bones can help scientists work out what extinct creatures used to look like, but now researchers are claiming they can even tell you what they used to sound like! ‘Terror Birds’, or phorusrhacids, lived after the dinosaurs and died out about 3.5 million years…

Cool Reads Metoposaurus loves red car
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Back when the world was just the supercontinent of Pangaea (also known as Pangea), back before dinosaurs ruled the land, the scariest thing you could come across might well have been the big brother of our modern day frogs and newts.

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