Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires spurred by human activity.
Tag: Fossils
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This Ancient Whale May Have Been the Heaviest Animal Ever
Perucetus drifted through shallow seas like a gigantic manatee, scientists suspect.
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505-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish Fossils May Be the Oldest Ever Found
The specimens are evidence of how little the squishy, tentacled predators have changed over the history of life on Earth.
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This Fossil Is a Freeze-Frame of a Mammal Fighting a Dinosaur
It’s like a man-bites-dog story from prehistoric times, although researchers had to take steps to verify that it was not a forgery.
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A Fossil Dream as Big as Texas
Andre LuJan’s ambition is to build a public museum focused on displaying the Lone Star State’s paleontological plenty.