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Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species from Europe
New Scientist· 2 days ago“But it differs from all known fossils and, of course, all living great apes we know so far.” About...
Huge cheetah that roamed China 1 million years ago would have stood face to face with a tiger
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoArtist impression of extinct giant cheetah species Acinonyx pleistocaenicus hunting . Scientists...
Extinct giant "giga-goose" bird's look finally revealed by lake discovery
Newsweek· 6 days agoA team from Flinders University in Australia uncovered a nearly complete fossil skull of the...
Meet the 'Giga-Goose,' a 500-Pound Ice Age Bird
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAn Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature,...
Scientists discover smallest great ape, find unusual lifestyle
Newsweek· 2 days agoIn the study, a team led by Madelaine Böhme of Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany, and...
Rare skull of an extinct, massive ‘thunder bird’ discovered in Australia
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe recent discovery of a complete Genyornis newtoni skull has given scientists their first...
The Megafauna Mystery: Scientists Discover New Clues to What Happened to North America’s Largest ...
SciTechDaily· 12 hours agoFifty thousand years ago, North America was home to megafauna like mammoths and saber-toothed...
Woolly rhinos went extinct partially because of humans
Cosmos· 2 days agoDebate has raged among palaeontologists for decades as to whether the now extinct Ice Age megafauna of the late Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) disappeared because ...
Do These Fossilized Teeth Belong to the World’s Smallest Great Ape?
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoIf great apes are known for anything, it’s being great in size. A large gorilla can weigh nearly 500...
Ancient Porcupine Discovery Solves Evolutionary Mystery 10 Million Years in the Making
SciTechDaily· 19 hours agoNew findings from a complete porcupine skeleton in Florida reveal a much earlier origin for North...