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Neandertals dove and harvested clamshells for tools near Italy’s shores
Often typecast as spear-wielding mammoth killers, some Neandertals were beachcombers and surf divers, researchers say. At Moscerini Cave, located on Italy’s western coast, Neandertals collected clamshells on the beach and retrieved others from the Mediterranean Sea, say archaeologist Paola Villa of the University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Natural History and her colleagues. Our close, now extinct evolutionary relatives waded or dove into shallow waters to collect shells that they sharpened into scraping or cutting tools, the researchers report January 15 in PLOS ONE.
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
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300m-year-old fossil is early sign of creatures caring for their young
Fossil found in Canada suggests pair were curled up together in a den when they died
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Dinosaurs had feathers ruffled by parasites, study finds
Dinosaurs may have been fearsome and intimidating creatures that dominated the prehistoric earth – but it did not stop them having their feathers ruffled by parasites, researchers have found.
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Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber
The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar.
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Even dinosaurs had lice, fossils entombed in amber reveal
100-million-year-old insects that fed on feathers are the oldest licelike fossils known
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Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One. Did We Kill The Rest?
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe's cold steppes.
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Newly Discovered Fossil Bird Fills in Gap Between Dinosaurs and Modern Fliers
A skeleton from the Cretaceous found in Japan reveals an early bird with a tail nub resembling the avians of today
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A NASA scientist's incredible animation shows how dinosaurs roamed the Earth on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy
Dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy. This animation combines paleontology and astronomy to show how that works.
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The Last of The Neanderthals Carved This Eagle Talon Into a Powerful Symbol
We invoke their name as an insult, but continuing discoveries about the extinct Neanderthal culture suggest the existence of a rich, complex symbolism we still do not fully understand. Now, we have another artefact to admire.
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Huge flying reptile that lived 96 million years ago discovered locked in ironstone
The pterosaur fossil is most closely associated with species from the other side of the world, suggesting these creatures could circumnavigate the globe.
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Scientists have found a new Aussie pterosaur and it's terrifying
Australian researchers have found a new species of pterosaur in outback Queensland.
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New species of dinosaur discovered after decades in museum
A new species of dinosaur has been discovered, after being misidentified and kept in a museum collection for several decades.
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California college student discovers 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull
A Triceratops fossil was uncovered by a UC Merced student and an experienced excavator in the Badlands of North Dakota.
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College student unearths 65 million-year-old Triceratops skull
A college student made the discovery of a lifetime on a recent paleontology dig when he unearthed a partial Triceratops skull.
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The Biggest Animals from Each Period of Earth's History
If you ever wondered what were the biggest animals from each period of Earth's history, here’s an article we made just for your reading!
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Enigmatic skull suggests our human species reached Europe 210,000 years ago
The claim is generating excitement as well as skepticism among experts who study human evolution.
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Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
An Australian company's plan to mine a fossil-rich site in New Zealand to produce pig food has been described as unjustifiable vandalism. A campaign is under way to protect the site in perpetuity.
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A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
There is evidence to show this monster of the ancient sea was a cannibal, feeding on its own kind.
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Fossils reveal saber-toothed cats may have pierced rivals’ skulls
Saber-toothed cats may sometimes have wielded their formidable canine teeth as deadly weapons to puncture the skulls of rival cats. It was already suspected that Smilodon cats used their huge canines to take down prey, perhaps by ripping out the prey’s throat (SN: 3/30/19, p. 20). But some researchers argued that the daggerlike teeth, which could grow up to 28 centimeters long in the largest species, were too thin and fragile to puncture bone without breaking.
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