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Three million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 9, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250117112232.htm ...

Experts estimate the inclusion's age to be up to 50 million years. The inclusion weighs 29 grams and measures 57 by 45 mm. “This is the first such specimen found at the plant in the last five years.

dating these fossils to around 0.99 million years ago. The area also showed signs of becoming more arid during this period, with desert-like conditions emerging. Fossil pollen analysis revealed ...

Homo erectus adapted to desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, utilizing behavioral strategies such as repeatedly accessing freshwater sources and developing specialized stone tools.

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the ...

The researchers have just used it to study an ancient human ancestor called Australopithecus, which lived around 3 million years ago. "These are still fairly ape-like, small-brained hominins ...

BERLIN: Scientists in Germany have discovered amber in Antarctica for the first time, revealing that around 90 million years ago, the continent's climate conditions supported resin-producing ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no meat, according to new research published in the scientific journal ...

The study suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal ...

Using multiple scientific techniques from analyzing ancient soils to studying fossilized plants and animals, they reconstructed what the environment looked like a million years ago. What they ...