Baby Octopuses Hatch From Flower In Adorable Video

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Octopus eggs hatching in 2018, in Virginia, located in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United State. (@vaaquarium/Clipzilla)

https://youtu.be/6AK5x20FuFA @vaaquarium/Newsflash This delicate flower is actually a clutch of octopus eggs that are slowly seen hatching in a remarkable video. Clipzilla obtained the footage from Virginia Aquarium and it…

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Palaeontologists Discover New Crocodile Species With Thickest Eggs Ever That Lived With Last Dinosaurs

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Picture shows Pachykrokolithus excavatum shell fragments, undated. They were found in found in La Ribagorza, Spain, dated within the 250,000 years of the Cretaceous period, close to the extinction of the dinosaurs. (Manuel Perez Pueyo/Newsflash)

Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of crocodile that lived with the last dinosaurs and that laid the thickest eggs on record. The group of palaeontologists from the University of…

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Critically-Endangered Birds Laying Eggs On Galapagos

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A mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates) in an undated photo. The bird is a part of the efforts for conservation of the mangrove finch in Puerto Ayora, Ecuador. ( Charles Darwin Foundation /Newsflash)

These critically-endangered birds are making a comeback in the Galapagos Islands. Experts from the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the Galapagos National Park Directorate who formed part of The Mangrove…

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Baby Dinosaurs Found Inside Eggs Give New Clues To Evolution

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Hadrosaurus Embryo from the Upper Cretaceous Hekou Formation found in Ganzhou Basin, Jiangxi Province, China. (Fujian Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum/AsiaWire)

The most complete embryos belonging to a duckbilled herbivorous dinosaur ever found have been unearthed by palaeontologists in China. The scientists - who published their findings in the journal BMC…

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Scientists Find Massive Haul Of 80-Million-Year-Old Titanosaur Eggs

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CT scans of the best-preserved egg-clutch (CPPLIP 1798). (a) 3D rendering of the bottom of the clutch in CPPLIP 1798. (b) General view of the clutch at the same orientation, showing the external part of the lower hemisphere of the eggs. (c) Top view of the lower egg row, showing the inner part of the lower hemisphere of the eggs. (d) Lateral view of CPPLIP 1798, showing lower egg row with higher shells at both ends and part of the upper egg row. In dark orange, eggshell fragments within the eggs. Note that the incompleteness (“holes”) of some eggs in B and C are due to the lack of the eggshells and/or poor resolution of the CT scan. In A the shape of each egg is maintained due to the sedimentary internal mold. Scale bar 10 cm. (Dr Agustin G. Martinelli/Newsflash)

Scientists have unearthed the first titanosaur nesting site in Brazil after they found about 20 of these massive, 80-million-year-old dinosaur eggs. The dinosaur egg nest, which dates back to the…

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Croc Conservation Project Facing Massive Overcrowding After Reptiles Stressed By Flooding Lay Too Many Eggs

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Outside of the Yalta Crocodilarium, a crocodile farm, which is on the verge of closure due to insufficient space, in Crimea, Ukraine. (Newsflash)

A crocodile conservation project that has several rare breeds is facing closure due to a lack of space after a flood stressed the reptiles - prompting them to lay a…

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Moment Cute Endangered Turtle Hatchlings Swim Out To Sea At Low Tide For The First Time In Australia

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First turtle hatchlings of the season in Raine Island, Australia. (@QldEnvironment/Newsflash)

https://youtu.be/y8eCj_gWYxQ @QldEnvironment/Newsflash This is the moment cute, endangered turtle hatchlings swim out to sea at low tide for the first time in their lives in Australia. The footage was shared…

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Archaeologists Extract 30 Titanosaur Dinosaur Eggs From Huge Block Of Rock And Expect To Find 70 More

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The first extracted titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg near Huesca in northern Spain. (Universidad de Zaragoza/Newsflash)

Archaeologists have extracted 30 titanosaur dinosaur eggs found in a two-tonne block of rock in northern Spain and believe there could be as many as 70 more deeper inside the…

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Boffins Unearth 73 Fossilised Dino Bird Eggs From 85 Million Years Ago On University Campus

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The site where 73 fossil eggs of prehistoric birds that lived during the Cretaceous period, approximately 85 million years ago, were found in the province of Neuquen, Argentina, it was announced in July 2021.

Experts have unearthed 73 fossilised dinosaur eggs on a university campus from a species that was an ancestor of today's birds from the Cretaceous period 85 million years ago. The…

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Artist Paints On 100-Million-Year-Old Fossilised Dinosaur Eggs For Russian Easter At The Weekend

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Famous Russian artist Nikas Safronov, 65, has created incredible paintings on 100 million-year-old dinosaur eggs for Russian easter.

These are the paintings a famous artist has created on 100 million-year-old dinosaur eggs for Orthodox Easter. In many countries, the sale in fossils to private individuals is not forbidden…

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