Fossils show leaf-eating insects tracked gum trees for millions of years
How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...
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Remarkable Fossil Discovery Hints at Antarctic Origins of All Modern Birds
The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, which lived around 69 million years ago – more than 2 million years before the mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs ...
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He's A Previously Unknown Human Relative Of Ours From Southern Africa, Dubbed Nutcracker Man
In 1949, a fossil jaw was discovered in a cave and has now been identified as belonging to a previously unknown human ...
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11 Of Ancient Earth’s Most Unbelievable Prehistoric Animals
For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...
Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...
Technofossils: how the pollution of today will become the fossils of the far future
It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future
It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...
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Rare Neck Fossil With Puncture Mark Suggests a Prehistoric Crocodilian Snacked on a Young Pterosaur 76 Million Years Ago
The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...
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Rare Fossil of 183-Million-Year-Old ‘Sea Monster’ Reveals Both Smooth and Scaly Skin
For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...
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Farmer uncovers fossil from violent marine battle millions of years ago
Discover the fascinating story of a sea cow fossil in Venezuela, providing insights into prehistoric marine life and predator ...
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5 things to know about the 24th Annual Fossil Fair in Gastonia
Gastonia Participants can search for North Carolina fossils, meet live animals, mine for gemstones, explore the Dino Safari exhibit, talk to geologists and paleontologists, see a dinosaur-themed ...