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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The research suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. An international team of scientists, including the ...

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 ...

which spanned between 3.3 million and 3.7 million years ago. This conclusion comes despite some evidence that associates some Australopithecus specimens with stone tools. “These are still fairly ...

dominating the skies throughout the Mesozoic Era (66 million to 252.2 million years ago). They were the first vertebrates on the planet to take flight. But such a well-preserved pterosaur fossil ...

Evidence gathered at Engaji Nanyori in Tanzania’s Oldupai Gorge shows H. erectus thrived in these arid conditions more than one million years ago, long before the emergence of H. sapiens. “Now extinct ...