Human Evolution, Fossils unearthed
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The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings us closer to filling the knowledge gap.View on euronews
Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.
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These 773,000-year-old hominin fossils from Morocco may be the closest ancestors of modern humans
This cave was probably a death trap. Nearly 800,000 years ago, carnivores dragged prey into a hollow carved into coastal rock near what is now Casablanca, Morocco. Hyenas regularly gnawed bones there.
A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to hominins who probably lived very close in time to our species’ last common ancestor with Neanderthals and Denisovans. They reveal a little more about a murky but important moment in our evolutionary history.
A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Allosaurus Riley Black - Science Correspondent Dinosaurs thrived on our planet for many millions of years. Scaly and feathery, toothy ...
Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery is reshaping views on California geology with the ...
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Giant 'cow of the Cretaceous' discovered almost 100 years ago identified as new duck-billed dinosaur
Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million years ago.