A study of butchered bones from 125,000 years ago offers what researchers call “the first clear-cut evidence of elephant-hunting in human evolution.”
Tag: Paleontology
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Why This Trilobite Had Neptune’s Trident for a Nose
A new paper suggests an ancient creature’s odd anatomical feature may be the earliest known example of specialized sexual combat in the animal kingdom.
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A Fossil Flower Trapped in Amber Had a Mistaken Identity for 150 Years
A study of the Baltic specimen offers new insights into what Europe’s climate was like some 35 million years ago.
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It’s Turtles All the Way Down in the Fossil Record
How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries.