Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago
6 April 2022
A set of ancient footprints seems to show children splashing around in water that had pooled in tracks left by a now-extinct ground sloth
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Strange fossil is the first to show an ammonite without its shell
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Ammonites were swimming molluscs in the dinosaur age, and now we have found a fossil of one without its distinctive spiral shell – perhaps because it was attacked by a predator
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A study of some 8-million-year-old teeth found in Greece suggests a controversial idea: that hominins arose in Europe and then moved into Africa later
New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines
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An analysis of ancient bones has revealed a previously unknown human species named Homo luzonensis that lived in the Philippines 50,000 years ago
Earliest known animal might have inflated its body like a balloon
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Dickinsonia lived about 560 million years ago and may have been the first animal – but it seems to have inflated its body in a way no animals do today
Sabre-toothed cats shared their food with injured pride members
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Prehistoric sabre-toothed cats often injured their impressive jaws during hunts. Now fossil evidence suggests injured cats could rely on their peers for food
A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
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A plant fossil that lay unnoticed for a century is unexpectedly large for something so old, and it could upend our ideas about the evolution of land plants
