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Earliest ‘true cicada’ fossil discovered in Germany
Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as ...
First fossil cicada discovered in the Messel pit
For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is ...
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Assam: Fossil study uses climate history to predict ecological changes.
The recent discovery of fossil evidence of a tree species now considered endemic to the Western Ghats, in a coalfield in ...
Incredibly well preserved cicada fossil discovered in Germany
Scientists in Germany have discovered an almost perfectly preserved fossil of a cicada, thought to be around 47 million years old. Its age makes it one of the oldest known true cicadas ever discovered ...
Giant crocodile-like predators once ruled the Caribbean
A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...
Volunteers dig for mammoth and ancient camel bones in the California desert. You can, too
Stout Research Center at Anza Borrego Desert State Park is believed to house fragments of the longest continuous record of ...
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This Gigantic Bird Had a 20 Foot Wingspan and a Terrifying Beak with Teeth
The Pelagornis belonged to the family Pelagornithidae. These birds existed from the Late Paleocene age to the Late Pliocene ...
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The Origin of Man
In 1965, fossils of Yuanmou Man were discovered in ... 150 grams and being similar to a mouse in size, lived in the Middle Eocene Epoch 4.5 to 4 million years ago. Its discovery posed a great ...