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Fossil study finds how sea level changes shaped early life on Earth
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
A newly developed timeline of early animal fossils suggests a relationship between sea level fluctuations, variations in marine oxygen, and the appearance of the earliest ancestors of present-day animals.
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2.9-million-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone to
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to new research led by researchers with the National Museums of Kenya, Liverpool John Moores University, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever discovered to b
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Did you know ancient amphibians had their bones cooked?
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery as to why ancient tetrapods - amphibian-like creatures that lived over 300 million years ago - preserved in one of Ireland's most important fossil sites seemingly had their bones cooked after they died.
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