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New fossilized crab claw is the largest one found yet: https://www.iflscience.com/largest-foss ... 3tLrTIJvyA

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New 26-foot mosasaur from the Maastrichtian of Morocco: https://www.livescience.com/animals/ext ... discovered

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Somehow missed this from last month, but new ankylosaur from China: http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/02/datai.html

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You know how Triassic ichthyosaurs were just friggin' enormous? Here's a new one that blows them all away. As large as a blue whale, and confirmed to have *still been growing* at the time of death: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal ... -in-the-uk