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Category Archives: Paleontology
Mammoth Blondes
MSNBC: Museum dioramas typically portray mammoths as having shaggy brown coats, but some of the hairy beasts might have been blonde, raven-haired or red-bodied in real life, thanks to a gene that controls hair color in humans and other mammals.
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Ancient Pandas Competed With Giant Apes For Bamboo
New fossils suggest ancient pandas ompeted with the largest known apes for habitat and food nearly half a million years ago on the tropical coast of southern China, scientists say. The 400,000-year-old fossils of a giant panda were uncovered alongside the … Continue reading
Whales Evolved From Tiny Deerlike Mammals
The nearest ancestors of Earth’s largest-ever animals were tiny deerlike creatures that jumped into rivers to flee prehistoric predators, a new study suggests.These semiaquatic, raccoon-size mammals dubbed Indohyus lived in southern Asia some 48 million years ago. National Geographic
Mummified Hadrosaur Found In North Dakota
Preliminary studies of the 67-million-year-old hadrosaur, named Dakota, are already altering theories of what the ancient creatures’ skin looked like and how quickly they moved, project researchers say. National Geographic
Bahamas Sinkhole
David Steadman, a University of Florida ornithologist, said the fossils allowed him to reconstruct the ancient plant and animal communities of the Bahamas, as well as the impact that humans had when they first arrived there, which he detailed in … Continue reading
Dwarf Hippo Graveyard On Cyprus
Cypriot and Greek scientists are trying to unravel the riddle of a collapsed cave brimming with the fossilized remains of extinct dwarf hippopotamuses that were descendants of a group believed to have migrated here as far back as a quarter … Continue reading
Panda Fossils Found On Hainan
BEIJING – Chinese archaeologists have found fossils that prove pandas once roamed what is now the southern Chinese island of Hainan, state media said on Wednesday. MSNBC
Ice Age California Condor
At the end of the Pleistocene epoch about 10,000 years ago, when Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age, two types of condors competed over resources in what is now California. The California condor seen in the skies today ultimately … Continue reading
