2-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Offers Clearest Look Yet at Homo habilis
A newly-described partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya is providing paleoanthropologists their most total photo yet of Homo habilis — among the earliest members of the…
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160-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Chile
The newly-discovered theropod and sauropod footprints become part of the Late Jurassic Majala Formation, and represent the earliest dinosaur footprints reported for Chile and the western margin of the ancient…
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1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed โ and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolution
19459003]fetchpriority=”high”> Scientists utilized CT scans to design how this early human’s face may have been formed. ( Image credit: Karen L. Baab and National Museum of Ethiopia) Researchers have actually…
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1.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals New Details about Homo erectus
Paleoanthropologists have actually taken a look at and rebuilded DAN5, a 1.5-million-year-old fossilized skull of early Homo erectus discovered in Gona in the Afar area of Ethiopia. This is an…
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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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