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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 ...
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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 during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly ...
Early Europeans celebrated victory in war by eating their enemies’ brains, cave fossils show
Fossils unearthed from a Polish cave suggest early Europeans engaged in cannibalism, sometimes even eating the brains of their enemies, during a time of war about 18,000 years ago. At such a critical ...
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Bison Harvest
On the edge of a wintry cottonwood stand near the banks of Two Medicine River, Rusty Tatsey, a Blackfeet elder, makes the ...
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What were the first birds like?
This wonderchicken model and skull ... Fossils of the wonderchicken date to 66.7 million years ago, just 700,000 years before the mass extinction that killed off the non-avian dinosaurs. The ...
The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A few months later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus ...