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First fossil pangolin tracks discovered in South Africa
No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to ...
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First fossil hyena tracks found in South Africa. How expert animal trackers helped
Since 2008, through the Cape South Coast Ichnology project ... confirming the first fossil hyena trackway ever to be found. The Late Pleistocene is not that far distant from the present (a ...
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The Ancient ‘Terror Crocodiles’ of North America Weren’t Alligators After All, DNA and Fossils Suggest
A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...
Scientists Found a 444-Million-Year-Old Inside-Out Fossil With Its Guts Perfectly Intact
For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.
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Fossils in south Chile reveal close interaction with once connected Antarctica
Around 600 million years ago, South America was joined to Antarctica, Australia, Africa and Asia in ... in South America where dinosaur fossils have ever been found and the discovery has proven ...
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Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants, From Small Swimming Creatures to Shovel-Tusked Beasts
If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...
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Scientists uncover 'inside-out, legless, headless wonder' that lived long before the dinosaurs
The fossil, found 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of Cape Town in South Africa, is a new species of multisegmented arthropod that may have lived in oxygen-poor waters, according to the study ...
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Paleontologists Find 2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Skull in South Africa
Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the ...
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First Fossil Hyena Tracks Found In South Africa How Expert Animal Trackers Helped
Since 2008, through the Cape South Coast Ichnology project ... confirming the first fossil hyena trackway ever to be found. Swapping techniques The Late Pleistocene is not that far distant ...
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First fossil hyena tracks found in South Africa – how expert animal trackers helped
Coprolites – fossilised droppings – are seldom found conveniently beside the tracks of the depositor. We showed our new colleagues known fossil tracksites, without providing our own ...
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South Africa: First Fossil Hyena Tracks Found in South Africa - How Expert Animal Trackers Helped
Coprolites - fossilised droppings - are seldom found conveniently beside the tracks of the depositor. We showed our new colleagues known fossil tracksites ... by and about Africa - aggregating ...
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First fossil hyena tracks found in South Africa – how expert animal trackers helped
Our mission is to find and document the fossilised tracks and traces of creatures that existed during part of the Pleistocene Epoch, between 35,000 and 400,000 years ago, on the Cape coast of South ...