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Meeting Lucy: How a World-First European Exhibition Brought Visitors Face to Face With the Fossil That ‘Shrinks Time’
Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...
Rare fossils reveal that worms managed to survive multiple mass extinction events. A recent scientific investigation has ...
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Snail Fossils Over 1 Million Years Old Show Prehistoric Snails Gave Birth to Live Young
A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early ...
In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil ...
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This Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered a 151-Million-Year-Old Insect—and It's a New Species
Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...
The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.
Ancient Archives is a unique find in downtown Salt Lake City, where every nook and cranny is filled with real fossils, rare minerals, and ancient ...
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