Paleontologist discovers most primitive primate skeleton
The roots of the primate family tree are now more clearly defined in the fossil record, and about 10 million…
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‘Terror bird’ arrived in North America before land bridge
Evidence from a study led by the Florida Museum of Natural History confirms that the carnivorous, seven-foot-tall “terror bird” likely…
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Bountiful harvest
As they plowed a pasture in the spring of 2001 to plant peanuts, Bruce and Allan Tyner of Newberry looked…
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Big-game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths
Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground…
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Global warming dramatically changed ancient forests
Palmettos in Pennsylvania? Magnolias in Minnesota? The migration of subtropical plants to northern climates may not be too far-fetched if…
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Discovery raises questions about origin of African mammals
“Into Africa” rather than “Out of Africa” could well be the better description of how certain mammals originated and spread…
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Ideas about fossil horses undergo evolution in thinking
The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher whose…
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White River Badlands: prospecting for ancient tortoise fossils
Drying waterholes, baked brown grasses, and the ever-blowing hot wind greeted us, as my wife Shelley and I pushed our…
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