jeanne timmons
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Oldest Human Footprints in North America Really Are That Old, New Dating Confirms
Fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico are every bit as old as the 23,000 years-and-change they were dated at in 2021, according to analysis published in Science. Back in 2021, researchers published work in which they used radiocarbon dating of crushed seeds of Ruppia cirrhosa, an aquatic grass, to date…
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Dinosaur Tracks Damaged After Construction Crew Drove Over Fossil Site, Report Finds
More than two months after paleontologists claimed a dinosaur fossil site in Utah was seriously damaged by a backhoe, the Bureau of Land Management — which had ordered the construction work — has admitted that fossil trackways were indeed damaged by the heavy machinery and that the department made mistakes in not consulting scientists before…
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Footprints Suggest Humans Migrated Deep Into North America Earlier Than Previously Known
Evidence published this week not only changes the timing of human existence in southwestern North America but suggests that people remained in that location for at least 2,000 years. It’s a stunning revelation that indicates humans lived in areas below the ice sheets covering much of North America and the world at that time, evidence…
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A Shark, Eating a Squid, Eating a Lobster, in One Fossil
Over 174 million years ago, a squid-like creature was chowing down on an ancient crustacean, only to find itself scooped up as a meal by a prehistoric shark. Three creatures left their mark in time in an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil in Germany.