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Prehistoric rock in Japan reveals clues to major ocean anoxic event

By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount Ashibetsu in Japan, researchers have precisely refined the…

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Prehistoric hunter-gatherers heard the elks painted on rocks ‘talking’

Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000-1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments. When the…

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Sinuses prevented prehistoric crocodile relatives from deep diving

An international team of paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from…

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Ancient sea cow attacked by a crocodile and sharks sheds new light on prehistoric food chains

A new study describing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one, but two different carnivores —…

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Giant prehistoric flying reptile took off using similar method to bats, study finds

The pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in bats today, researchers have…

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Modern behavior explains prehistoric economies

What if the ‘Market Economy’ always existed? Archaeologists from the Universities of Göttingen in Germany and Salento in Italy tried…

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Prehistoric ‘Pompeii’ discovered: Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group

Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million…

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