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Man finds ancient mammoth bones in his wine cellar
CBS News· 12 hours agoIt wasn't vintage wine – it was the giant bones of an extinct mammoth that date back 30,000 to 40,000 years. The researchers realized other artifacts...
Lake Shasta was home to Shastasaurus, sea lizards, these other prehistoric marine reptiles
Redding Record Searchlight via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat doesn’t mean what would become Shasta County...as any animals found on land. Here are some of...
A Million-Year-Old Skull Could Prove the Dragon Man's Direct Line to Humans
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 2 days ago“It is very controversial whether these fossil humans represent different species or lineages,” the...
How Did A “Bizarre” Fossil Marine Parasite Tentacle End Up Trapped In Tree Resin?
IFLScience· 4 days agoFossils and ancient creatures sometimes tend to give researchers a headache just as much as they...
Austrian Man Discovers Hundreds of Mammoth Bones While Renovating His Wine Cellar
Smithsonian Magazine· 8 hours agoWhen he reported his discovery, it turned out his instincts were right: Pernerstorfer’s wine cellar was full of huge mammoth bones—at least 300 of them, reports CNN’s Lianne Kolirin. Since the ...
Teeth on the beach: Search for megalodon teeth in South Carolina on Memorial Day weekend
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoThe ancient shark's fossils date back to 20 million years ago, according to the Natural History...
New fossil brings us a step closer to unravelling the mystery of feather evolution
The Conversation· 4 days agoStrong but light, beautiful and precisely structured, feathers are the most complex skin appendage that ever evolved in vertebrates. Despite the fact humans have been playing ...
Loss of sailing cargo ship off Bahamas underscores the perils of the sea
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe Coast Guard said it first received distress notifications early Tuesday morning from personal locator beacons. About two hours later, around 8 a.m., a Coast Guard helicopter ...
This summer could be even hotter than last year, climate scientists warn
Salon.com· 9 hours agoAs the cyclical La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific combines with rising sea surface temperatures...
Microplastics Found in Blood Clots in Heart, Brain, And Legs
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt just shows how fast this field is moving, from detecting microplastics in human tissues, to studying their effects in cells and mice, to now elucidating the health impacts of microplastics ...