Tag Archives: Prehistoric

In 1984, paleontologists found and saved a portal to prehistoric Wisconsin right in Waukesha County. Scientists are still discovering new fossils from it — most recently a leech that has pushed back the origins of the species by millions of years. It is hard to imagine that millions of years ago, southeast Wisconsin was just a warm, shallow ocean. But …

AUSTIN, Texas — When July’s historic floods ripped through Central Texas, they didn’t just sweep away homes and trees. Along Sandy Creek, volunteers spotted something extraordinary emerging from the mud: a trail of footprints pressed into stone that were 115 million years old. “The dinosaur tracks at Sandy Creek were uncovered during debris removal after the floods,” explained Matthew Brown, …

An Unprecedented Prehistoric Discovery: A 50,000-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Neanderthals Had a Far Richer Diet Than Scientists Once Believed  Indian Defence Review Source link

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that walked the walk, squeezed with ease, and became immortalized in amber.  First, ancient artifacts in Turkey might rewrite the history of early human migrations into Europe. Then: a Cretaceous insectarium, badminton in space, a breakthrough in quantum sensing, and block parties for chimps. Before we get to that, …

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning to diversify and spread around the world. Many of the specimens found at a sandstone quarry in Ecuador date to 112 million years ago, said Fabiany Herrera, curator …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning to diversify and spread around the world. Many of the specimens found at a sandstone quarry in Ecuador date to 112 million years ago, said …

Dinosaur Fossils Found Behind a Lowe’s? New Jersey’s Surprising Prehistoric Discovery  New Jersey Digest Source link

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is located in what’s now Indonesia, living organisms across the entire globe were potentially affected. As an archaeologist who specializes in studying volcanic eruptions of the past, …

In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on its forehead, fused to the cave wall. Since then, researchers have been trying to date the strange specimen and understand how it got there, but these efforts so far have yielded only a frustratingly broad age range of between around 170,000 and …

Paleontologists have uncovered a 265-million-year-old fossil of Pampaphoneus biccai, one of South America’s largest predators before the dinosaurs. This discovery in southern Brazil sheds light on pre-dinosaur ecosystems and the events leading up to Earth’s largest extinction. The find underscores Brazil’s significance in paleontology, with a study in the Zoological Journal of Linnean Society highlighting how such fossils offer critical …