The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
Jurassic fossil rewrites what we thought we knew about bird evolution
“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...
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Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
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Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...
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Skull fossil discovery reveals oldest known modern bird
A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...
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Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...