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Paleontologists Stumble Across 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossils That Are So Well Preserved, Their Last Meals Are Intact
Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...
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Amazing 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Found in The Australian Desert
An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving.
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Why Birds Matter, and Are Worth Protecting
A duck on your local pond looks and sounds very much like a duck 20 million years ago, in the Miocene epoch, when birds ruled the planet. In an ever more artificial world, where featherless drones ...
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Back to the Miocene: What the climate 13.8 million years ago could tell us about our future world
For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period. From Dryopithecus, a lineage of extinct primates that included forerunners of humans, to the ...
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15 million-year-old creature — with its last meal inside — is new species in Australia
The fossil was dated to the Miocene, between 11 million and 16 million ... were used to reconstruct the color of feathers for birds millions of years after they lived, study author Michael Frese ...