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fossils

  1. Cold Ethyl

    Ancient jawbone found in sea belongs to mysterious human ancestors, scientists say

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-jawbone-taiwan-sea-denisovans-human-ancestors/ An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of...
  2. Cold Ethyl

    Scientists find 'giant' dinosaur spider fossil in Australia

    Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, only the fourth specimen of its kind to be found in Australia. The creature would have roamed and hunted in the surrounding areas which were once a lush rainforest, researchers said in a recently filed report. Last...
  3. Cold Ethyl

    Fossil around 385 million-years-old found in pavement

    A FOSSIL that predates the age of the dinosaurs by 140 million years has been discovered embedded in a paving slab on a city street in Inverness. Eagle-eyed James Ryan, who works for the National Trust for Scotland, spotted the remains of the 385 million-year-old fish right outside Inverness...
  4. Cold Ethyl

    Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group

    Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of Morocco and are being referred to by scientists as "Pompeii" trilobites due to their remarkable...
  5. slickrick27

    bizarre Soft blood tissue in millions of year old dinosaurs. How's that possible?

    How is soft blood tissue found in dinosaur fossils that are millions of years old? It wouldn't be possible if they were that old. O and what about the carbon dating of the soft blood tissue? *Spoiler alert- they aren't millions of years old. Chemical decomposition rates simply don't allow for...
  6. Cold Ethyl

    Woman discovers 20-million-year-old fossil while walking along Oregon Coast

    One woman made a very rare and unique discovery while walking along the beach near Newport: a more than 20-million-year-old fossil. The fossil was some teeth from a Desmostylian, which resembled a hippopotamus and spent most of its time in the ocean. According to a Reddit post, the teeth were...
  7. Cold Ethyl

    Pliosaur sea monster enters world record books

    The skull of a prehistoric sea monster found on the Jurassic Coast has made it into the world record books. The 2m-long (6ft) skull of a pliosaur, excavated from high above a beach in Dorset, was the subject of a BBC film presented by Sir David Attenborough. Guinness World Records confirmed it...
  8. Cold Ethyl

    Paleontologists Discover First-Ever Fossil Tapeworm Trapped in Amber

    Pictured: the fossil tapeworm (A), as compared to a modern tapeworm (B). Image C shows a scanning electron microscope image of a living tapeworm tentacle. The newly-discovered specimen in amber is the first-ever conclusively identified.. It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for...
  9. Cold Ethyl

    1.6-billion-year-old fossils push back origin of multicellular life by tens of millions of years

    Groundbreaking fossils unearthed in China suggest that multicellular organisms arose earlier than scientists previously thought. The fossils, of what may be an ancient type of photosynthetic alga, are the oldest known multicellular eukaryotes, a group of organisms that contains a clearly defined...
  10. Cold Ethyl

    310-Million-Year-Old Fossil Spider Is The Oldest Ever Found In Germany

    An unidentified arachnid fossil was retrieved from the Late Carboniferous (Moscovian) strata of strata of Piesberg near Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany, a few years ago. The mysterious specimen was passed on to fossil arachnid expert Dr Jason Dunlop of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, who...
  11. Cold Ethyl

    Locked in Mortal Combat: Unusual Fossil Shows Mammal Attacking a Dinosaur

    A 125-million-year-old fossil, showing a carnivorous mammal attacking a dinosaur, challenges the long-standing belief that Cretaceous dinosaurs faced minimal threats from mammals. This significant finding offers new insights into prehistoric predator-prey dynamics. A Glimpse into Prehistoric...
  12. Cold Ethyl

    Oldest-known fossils of mysterious human lineage uncovered in Siberian cave

    Scientists have unearthed the oldest fossils to date of the mysterious human lineage known as the Denisovans. With these 200,000-year-old bones, researchers have also for the first time discovered stone artifacts linked to these extinct relatives of modern humans, a new study finds. First...
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