Ancient Human Relative ‘Walked like a Human, but Climbed Like an Ape’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 29, 2021
New lumbar vertebrae give insight into how this ancient human relative walked and climbed
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‘Wiggly’ fossils found in Canada may be oldest known sign of animal life0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 29, 2021
Scientists believe the unusual tubular structures may be the remnants of prehistoric sponges
103-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bone Discovered in ‘Fossil Hotspot’0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 13, 2021
An archaeological dig has unveiled a rare, 103-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, leaving researchers hopeful that it belongs to one of only two fossilized specimens found in Oregon since 2015.
Fossil find adds to evidence of dinosaurs living in Arctic year-round0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 26, 2021
Fossils from tiny baby dinosaurs discovered in northernmost Alaska offer strong evidence that the prehistoric creatures lived year-round in the Arctic and were likely warm-blooded, according to a study published in the journal ‘Current Biology’.
Giant rhino fossils in China show new species was ‘taller than giraffe’0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 23, 2021
A new species of the ancient giant rhino – among the largest mammals to walk on land – has been discovered in north-western China, researchers say.
Newly discovered giant rhino species was among largest mammals ever to walk Earth0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 18, 2021
A group of researchers found a new giant rhinoceros species from fossils dating back 26.5 million years in the Gansu Province of northwestern China.
That’s not a dinosaur. Tiny fossil discovered in 2020 actually belonged to a lizard.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 16, 2021
A small skull found inside a piece of 99 million-year-old amber had scientists thinking in 2020 that they discovered the smallest dinosaur to date. However, new research has concluded the fossil belongs to a strange-looking lizard.
How a ranger stumbled upon one of the largest fossil finds in California history0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 2, 2021
While on a routine patrol, Greg Francek came across bone fragments from prehistoric animals that existed millions of years before humans
Fantastical Jurassic Fossil Shows Crustacean Eaten by Squid Eaten by Shark0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 11, 2021
Sometime in the early Jurassic, an ancient squid-like creature speared a yummy lobster-like crustacean with its many hooked tentacles. Just as it began to dig into its meal, the eater became the eaten.
Fossil ‘balls’ are 1 billion years old and could be Earth’s oldest known multicellular life0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- May 7, 2021
The spherical fossils came from sediments that were formerly at the bottom of a lake.
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