fossils
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Radar Scans Reveal Ancient Human Footprint Embedded In Mammoth Track
Tens of thousands of years ago, a human walked north at what is now White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. A large proboscidean, possibly a Columbian mammoth, later walked west, stepping onto one of the footprints left by the human. Soon after, a person—perhaps the same individual who had gone north—walked south, parallel to…
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Fossil Hunters Found Bones From An Ancient Whale… And Then They Saw The Bite Marks
There was tremendous turmoil at the top of the water’s surface. An island of flesh, once living and swimming gracefully through these ancient seas, bobbed silently, at times yanked violently to the side or jolted upward by forces below it.
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‘Spectacular’ Opal-Laced Fossils Reveal Previously Unknown Australian Dinosaur
Palaeontologists in Australia have identified a previously unknown plant-eating dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous. Remarkably, the fossilized bones of these creatures, which glisten in hues of blue and green, are preserved in opal.
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Adorable Jurassic Dinosaur May Have Flown With Bat-Like Wings
During the Jurassic period, various dinosaurs experimented with different forms of powered flight. The discovery of a new dinosaur species in China suggests some of these pioneering flyers evolved webbed fingers and an elongated forelimb, allowing them to fly in a distinctly bat-like fashion.