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Scientists Believe the First Humans Reached the Americas Earlier Than Once Thought??? Continuing to Reshape Archaeology
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (539+ words) Scientists Believe the First Humans Reached the Americas Earlier Than Once Thought – Continuing to Reshape Archaeology newsbreak.com...
Flower Memorial Library held prehistoric escape room for kids Saturday
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (76+ words) FOX5 Vegas Flower Memorial Library held prehistoric escape room for kids Saturday Longtime Montgomery restaurant owner Gail Royal dies at 74 Millbrook man recounts being declared dead by IRS Decatur County woman hosts health expo to teach community about scam prevention, wellness…...
One of the most complete fossils of a pre-Ice Age dog is found in North America and dated at 30 million years old
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (827+ words) Modern dogs are built for running long distances. Wolves, for example, can keep up a steady trot for miles because of their long legs and flexible joints. But the earliest members of the dog family were very different. A newly…...
Why No Dinosaur Was Ever Smaller Than a Can of Soup
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (440+ words) Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Stephanie C. Lechki (Princeton University) A fossil of Microraptor, one of the smallest known dinosaurs. (Credit: Mick Ellison / ©AMNH) For more than 180 million years, the smallest known non-avian dinosaurs weighed about 400 grams as adults....
Scientists discover extinct species that was over 26 feet long and inhabited the Earth over 400 million years ago
3+ hour, 50+ min ago (273+ words) ‘Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries. A study published in Science Advances has revealed that prototaxites—the giant structures that towered over Earth’s…...
Scientists have discovered fossils of creatures that lived 567 million years ago in remote mountains in Canada, and some of them were already capable of moving across the seafloor even though they didn't even have mouths
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (916+ words) Fossils found in Canada that date back 567 million years reveal that some of Earth's earliest animals were already moving across the seafloor. By Adrian Villellas · Editorial process Long before shells, bones, or familiar body plans became common, soft creatures were…...
Prehistoric mammals somehow migrated across a watery divide into South America, millions of years before the land bridge formed
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (1241+ words) Northern American mammals settled into Mexico about 10 million years ago, long before any land bridge had formed. Almost none of them crossed into South America for another three million years. Horses, camels, and saber-toothed cats spread south into what is…...
Gallery of Wild’s Collection Naturalist Specimen / Offhand Practice - 2
14+ hour, 37+ min ago (16+ words) ArchDaily Wild’s Collection Naturalist Specimen / Offhand Practice...
When Door County Was Underwater: Exploring the Fossils Beneath Our Feet
4+ hour, 52+ min ago (387+ words) Posted Today At 9:24am by Lynn Michelsen, Crossroads at Big Creek Throughout the week—and continuing year-round during open hours—visitors can also enjoy Tinkers, our self-led, hands-on activities designed for curious minds. Guests can examine fossils, investigate ancient life forms,…...
Trees still carry defenses against animals that no longer exist
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (937+ words) The spiniest plant communities in the tropics grow where large browsing mammals once fed. In much of the Americas, many of those animals vanished thousands of years ago, including giant ground sloths and gomphotheres, tusked relatives of elephants. The thorns…...