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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3.25-Million-Year-Old Fossil Identified as New Mole Species
Paleontologists have actually determined a brand-new genus and types of mole (household Talpidae) from a partial skeleton found at the Pliocene-aged website of Camp dels Ninots in Girona, Spain. Life…
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19-Million-Year-Old Currawong Fossil Found in New Zealand
Paleontologists have actually desribed a brand-new types of big passerine bird based the fossilized remains from the Bannockburn Formation near St Bathans in Otago, New Zealand. The newly-described bird resided…
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Strange pits on 2 million-year-old teeth may reveal which human relatives are closely related to each other
A skull of P. robustus that was studied for oral qualities. (Image credit: Ian Towle) A mystical kind of pitting on the oral enamel of Paranthropusa genus of extinct human…
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160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Fossils Found in China
The discovery of a fossil blue-stain fungi colonizing the insect-infested conifer wood Xenoxylon phyllocladoides in China’s Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation extends the earliest fossil record of blue-stain fungis by around 80…
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