Paleontologists already know that the extinct marine reptile ichthyosaurs were enormous. Some newly described jawbone fossils uncovered in England represent…
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Read More »As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based on a fossilized…
Read More »An artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna in the murky waters of the Peruvian proto-Amazon Jaime Bran The Amazon basin was…
Read More »Fossils show man walked 3 million years ago — Science News, February 16, 1974 Anthropologist D. Carl Johanson … has…
Read More »Plenty of robots are inspired by existing animals, but not as many take their cue from extinct creatures. To design…
Read More »Tracing how some primates went from getting around on all fours to walking around on two legs has been difficult.…
Read More »Beginning about 2.6 million years ago, giant primates almost 10 feet tall weighing 551 pounds roamed the plains of southern…
Read More »Gigantopithcus blacki probably lived in “a mosaic of forests and grasses” Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University) The largest known primate went…
Read More »The world’s largest ape vanished from Earth more than 100,000 years earlier than once thought, pushed to extinction as the…
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