Los Angeles Tar Yields Mammoth’s Skeleton
Another creature has emerged from the famous La Brea Tar Pits. This time, it's a rather complete Mammoth:
...LOS ANGELES — The excavation for a parking garage near the La Brea tar pits here has yielded the site’s first intact mammoth skeleton as well as a trove of other bones that could double the size of the site’s already large collection of fossils from the last ice age...
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Neanderthals liked their veggies
Neandertals Ate Their Veggies, Tooth Study Shows
Although not a complete surprise, it's good to have evidence that Neanderthals were not obligate meat eaters:
...Tiny bits of plant material found in the teeth of a Neandertal skeleton unearthed in Iraq provide the first direct evidence that the early human relatives ate vegetation, researchers say...
Although not a complete surprise, it's good to have evidence that Neanderthals were not obligate meat eaters:
...Tiny bits of plant material found in the teeth of a Neandertal skeleton unearthed in Iraq provide the first direct evidence that the early human relatives ate vegetation, researchers say...
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Coprolites of the Gods
Evidence Supports Earlier Date for People in North America
The exact date when humans first entered the Americas has been a long running controversy in archeology. Now, there's some new evidence pushing the date back to at least 14,000 years before the present:
...Exploring Paisley Caves in the Cascade Range of Oregon, archaeologists have found a scattering of human coprolites, or fossil feces. The specimens preserved 14,000-year-old human protein and DNA, which the discoverers said was the strongest evidence yet of the earliest people living in North America...Other archaeologists agreed that the findings established more firmly than before the presence of people on the continent at least 1,000 years before the well-known Clovis people...
The Clovis people existed between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago. For many years, this was the excepted date of North American colonization.
...Michael R. Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University who was not part of the team, said, “Paisley Caves adds to the growing body of archaeological evidence that people were here prior to Clovis...
Fossil doody to the rescue!
The exact date when humans first entered the Americas has been a long running controversy in archeology. Now, there's some new evidence pushing the date back to at least 14,000 years before the present:
...Exploring Paisley Caves in the Cascade Range of Oregon, archaeologists have found a scattering of human coprolites, or fossil feces. The specimens preserved 14,000-year-old human protein and DNA, which the discoverers said was the strongest evidence yet of the earliest people living in North America...Other archaeologists agreed that the findings established more firmly than before the presence of people on the continent at least 1,000 years before the well-known Clovis people...
The Clovis people existed between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago. For many years, this was the excepted date of North American colonization.
...Michael R. Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University who was not part of the team, said, “Paisley Caves adds to the growing body of archaeological evidence that people were here prior to Clovis...
Fossil doody to the rescue!
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