Tag: #Fossils
Best of 2018: The Earliest Hominins Outside of Africa
A singular site in Shangchen in Northern China has revealed almost 100 stone tools, which were made over a span of 800,000 years. The...
Best of 2011 // 83: The Grazing Hominid
Palaeontologist Mary Leakey removed a bone fragment from a gully in Tanzania in 1959 . The find turned out to be a small piece...
Best of 2018: The Oldest Modern Finger In the Middle East
At over 85,000 years old, these bones are the oldest modern human fossils to be found in the Arabian Peninsula. The find was announced...
Best of 2016 // #77: Ancient Monkey Teeth Change South American...
In the latest development of the Panama Canal expansion, seven fossilized monkey teeth were discovered, pushing back the animals North American arrival by nearly...
BEST OF 2015 // #81: A Venomous Mammal Fossil
Add a new relative on the family tree: Ichibengops was described in July's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. The two partial skulls were dug up...
Best of 2012 // #92: Jurassic Fleas
In 2012, University of Kansas Natural History Museum palaeontologist Michael S. Engel was sent an image from his colleagues in China, and he had...
