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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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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