1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the origins of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans
The unreconstructed Yunxian 2 skull is housed at the Hubei Provincial Museum. (Image credit: Gary Todd/ Wikimedia Commons( CC0) ) Scientists have actually practically rebuilded a crushed and distorted 1…
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95 million-year-old ‘tiny, tiny skull’ from never-before-seen crocodile-like creature discovered in Montana
A creative making of Elton([Thikarisuchus xenodentes)an extinct crocodyliform from the Cretaceous in North America. ( Image credit: Illustration by Dane Johnson/Museum of the Rockies) Around 95 million years back, little…
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310-Million-Year-Old Ray-Finned Fish Had Tongue-Bite Apparatus
Platysomus parvulusa types of ray-finned fish that lived 310 million years earlier, had a special method of consuming never ever seen in ray-finned fish from that time– a ‘tongue bite’,…
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1.8 million-year-old human jawbone discovered in Republic of Georgia — and it may be earliest evidence yet of Homo erectus
Scientist found a piece of a jawbone and teeth at the historical site of Orozmani in the Republic of Georgia. (Image credit: Giorgi Bidzinashvili ) An approximately 1.8 million-year-old Homo…
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70-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Crocodile-Like Apex Predator Unearthed in Argentina
Paleontologists have actually uncovered a perfectly maintained skull and jaws along with part of the postcranial skeleton of a formerly unidentified peirosaur types in Patagonia, Argentina. Life restoration of Kostensuchus…
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5-Million-Year-Old Deer Fossils Unearthed in Tennessee
Paleontologists have actually discovered the fossilized remains of the extinct deer types Eocoileus gentryorum at the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site of northeastern Tennessee, the United States. The specimens are…
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75-Million-Year-Old Dragonfly Species Found
Called Cordualadensa acornithe brand-new dragonfly types from Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park represents the only Mesozoic dragonfly for Canada and fills a significant 30-million-year space in the evolutionary history of dragonflies….
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2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveal ancient human relatives were ‘forward planning’ 600,000 years earlier than thought
An Oldowan flake tool was discovered near a butchered bone from a hippo relative. (Image credit: T.W. Plummer, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project) Ancient human family members moved varied stones over…
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1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed
Among the stone tools found on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia go back a minimum of 1 million years. (Image credit: M.W. Moore) Stone tools found on the Indonesian…
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95-Million-Year-Old Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina
Paleontologists in Patagonia, Argentina, have actually discovered a part of a postcranial skeleton that came from a formerly unidentified rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur. Life restoration of Astigmasaura genuflexaImage credit: Mattia Yuri…
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