Paleontology

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the most detailed dinosaur fossil ever found

National Geographic Interactive 3D nodosaur fossil

Incredible! Most Well-Preserved Armored Dinosaur Was a 'Spiky Tank'

 

[Robert]

The concept of Paleontology is the greatest hoax the world has ever seen, conceived by and for the Chinese in order to...

Sorry, wrong thread.

More seriously, that's a fantastic find.

-EDIT-

National Geographic Interactive 3D nodosaur fossil

Just had a play with that. Very cool.

 

[metalman]

Chauvet Cave in southern France contains >60 images of the woolly rhinoceros. They are more than 30,000 years old

 

[metalman]

Lyuba is the best preserved juvenile woolly mammoth. She has traces of her mother's milk in her stomach after 41,000 years

Lyuba's full-body CT scan, taken by an industrial scanner at a Ford testing facility in Michigan, was the first of its kind for a mammoth.

Dental studies showed that baby Lyuba died at 30 to 35 days old


Short lives, violent deaths: Two CT-scanned Siberian mammoth calves yield trove of insights

 

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Baby Bird Found Fossilized in 99 million years old Amber

The hatchling belonged to a major group of birds known as enantiornithes, which went extinct along with dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago.

 

[metalman]

Scientists Find Oldest Fossil Mushroom

 

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Villager digs his garden and finds 400,000 year old steppe mammoth tusks

The steppe mammoth was a species of Elephantidae that ranged over most of northern Eurasia during Middle Pleistocene times, 600,000-370,000 years ago. It probably evolved in Siberia during the early Pleistocene from Mammuthus meridionalis.

 

[metalman]

Has the mystery of the 'Great Dying' been solved?
Scientists discover evidence in the Falklands of the possible asteroid impact which caused the mass extinction on Earth 250 million years ago

the Permian - Triassic boundary where 90% of all species went extinct

 

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120 million year old BIRD from the extinct bird group Enantiornithes, has teeth & Claws

 

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66 million year old Buckthorn fossilized flowers found in Argentina

 

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Ice Age Art

14k year old clay bison sculptures

 

[Robert]

Ice Age Art

14k year old clay bison sculptures

Very nice indeed.

 

[metalman]

The Hohle Fels flute is the oldest musical instrument - it was made from the wing bone of a griffon vulture 35,000 years ago

 

[Robert]

Rare dinosaur remains discovered under Surrey brick factory
Near-complete fossilised skeleton of 132m-year-old creature, believed to be an Iguanodon, has been taken to special laboratory for further investigation

 

[metalman]

the original Brexit!

Two-stage opening of the Dover Strait and the origin of island Britain

 

[Robert]

the original Brexit!

Two-stage opening of the Dover Strait and the origin of island Britain

Bloody foreign sea level rise, coming over here and stealing our land bridge....

 

[metalman]

Patagotitan mayorum, Biggest Animal Ever to Walk Earth

 

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20,000 year old woolly rhino

 

[metalman]

39,000 years old woolly rhino found in perma frost of Siberia in 2007

Woolly rhino discovery in the lower Kolyma River 2007