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Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
51+ min ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Well-Preserved Tooth From Pacific Mastodon Found in a Creek in San Francisco Bay Area
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (375+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (232+ words) A T. rex apparently went for a stroll through what is now North Dakota, and scientists just traced its steps. Researchers report finding the first known series of footprints from... T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery A T. rex apparently went for a…...
While surveying a California creek for threatened red-legged frogs, a scientist spotted what looked like a rock; it was an intact mastodon molar estimated to be 10,000 years old
20+ hour, 48+ min ago (372+ words) A routine field survey in a California redwood forest has led to an extraordinary glimpse into the Ice Age. A scientist searching a San Mateo County creek for signs of habitat conditions for threatened California red-legged frogs spotted an oddly…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (635+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
Geologists Searching for Copper in China Drilled 1,500 Feet Underground and Found a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...
Modern humans interbred with Neanderthals before they disappeared, and most people of non-African ancestry still carry roughly 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA today — meaning part of the human population we once thought we simply replaced never actually vanished
14+ hour, 44+ min ago (104+ words) The fossil record suggested modern humans simply wiped out their evolutionary cousins, but genetic evidence now reveals a messier, more intimate history of coexistence and interbreeding....
Ichthyosaurs Had Surprisingly Dense Ribs, New Study Finds | Sci.News
7+ hour, 24+ min ago (267+ words) New research from the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo suggests ichthyosaurs’ rib cages may have done a job modern whale ribs don’t: acting as ballast to help them dive....
Rare Ice Age relic from huge extinct creature found in California
21+ hour, 36+ min ago (842+ words) A giant tooth dating back at least 10,000 years has been found in a California creek, giving scientists a rare new clue about an extinct mammal that once roamed the West Coast. The extraordinary discovery began when a researcher stumbled across…...
Imagine not having wings | Paleontology
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