55-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Eggshells Found in Australia
Called Wakkaoolithus godthelpithis eggshell type came from mekosuchine crocodiles and represent the earliest crocodilian eggshells ever discovered in Australia. Mekosuchine crocodiles. Image credit: Armin Reindl/ CC BY-SA 4.0. The now-extinct…
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240 million-year-old ‘warrior’ crocodile ancestor from Pangaea had plated armor โ and it looked just like a dinosaur
19459010]> Artist restoration of the crocodile forefather, Tainrakuasuchus bellator, which lived before the dinosaurs. (Image credit: Caio Fantini) Scientists have actually uncovered a huge “warrior” lizard that stalked Brazil 240…
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Archaeologists Find 2.75-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools in Kenya
Archaeologists have actually found Oldowan stone tools in 3 unique historical horizons, covering around 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million years ago), at the website of Namorotukunan, part of the…
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6 million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica shatters records โ and there’s ancient air trapped inside
Scientist establishing a drill in the Allan Hills area of Antarctica. This work was supported by the NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX. (Image credit: Photo by Julia…
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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 โ 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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