About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm wriggled at its feet. The bird appeared to probe the silty earth with its beak, once, twice, ...
Hidden beneath layers of sediment in a long-dried lakebed, a set of fossilized human footprints—dated to roughly 115,000 years ago—has emerged as some of the earliest physical evidence of Homo sapiens ...
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Footprints dating back 1.5 million years of two different species of human ancestors have been found at the same spot. The "huge" discovery near the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya proves the theory ...
Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.
KIMBERLY, Ore. (KTVZ) — A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints dating back as far as 50 million years, offering ...
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A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the ...