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Massive Ice Age-era mastodon tooth found in California creek
16+ hour, 26+ min ago (269+ words) (KTLA) – What looked like a strange rock in a California creek turned out to be something much older and rarer. A scientist working in San Mateo County discovered an intact mastodon tooth during a field survey at a Midpeninsula Regional…...
Extinct Tasmanian Tiger???s Head Mistaken for Fox Found by British Collector at Auction
20+ hour, 26+ min ago (279+ words) Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s Head Mistaken for Fox Found by British Collector at Auction inkorr.com Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s Head Mistaken for Fox Found by British Collector at Auction An Extraordinary Discovery: A Fox Head Turns Out to Be That of…...
Deadly South Dakota Sinkhole And Its 61 Intact Mammoth Skeletons Is Older Than Thought
19+ hour, 52+ min ago (1338+ words) The world-famous Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, is older than scientists believed. A new scientific study revealed that the ancient sinkhole, containing dozens of intact mammoth skeletons, is between 160,000 and 232,000 years old. The world-famous Mammoth Site of Hot…...
It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards??? and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (259+ words) It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely BBC Wildlife Magazine It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very…...
'Ptree' is an interactive tree of life that allows you to trace the lineage of animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses.
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (397+ words) Ptree is a website where you can navigate through the classification of organisms by clicking on them, and learn about various characteristics such as their diet and lifespan. I tried out this interactive Tree of Life, which allows you to…...
A giant Pompeii-scale eruption buried an ancient Andes landscape and preserved it for 22 million years
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1364+ words) A 21.9-million-year-old volcanic blanket preserved clues showing part of the Andes may have risen slowly for millions of years. (CREDIT: Frances J. Cooper) A volcanic eruption of extraordinary size buried an entire Andean landscape nearly 22 million years ago. Instead of erasing…...
Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (620+ words) 620 CKRM Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is horticulture’s best-known living fossil. Abundant and cosmopolitan in the fossil record extending back 270 million years, the tree was thought long extinct by Western scientists. Then in 1690 botanist Engelbert Kaempfer…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (238+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didnât look like the rocks sheâd been studying caught her eye. It…...
Denisovan remains dating back up to 167,000 years found in China
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (354+ words) Denisovan remains dating back 134,000 to 167,000 years have been discovered in Bianfu Cave in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. Two studies published in the journal Nature on September 9 also describe the stone tools and way of life of this group of…...
Cave fossils in China reveal lives of mysterious human relatives
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (912+ words) Estimated read time: 7-8 minutes Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way of life. The new haul — which includes four teeth,…...