fossil discoveries

Unusual 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone May Belong To An Unknown Vanished Human Lineage

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Vanished Human Lineage

Unusual 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone May Belong To An Unknown Vanished Human Lineage Anthropologists in China have unearthed fragments of a lower jaw that may have belonged to an unknown human lineage.  The bone, which is around 300,000 years old, belonged to a young teenager and features a unique mosaic of ancient and modern traits, according to a new … Read more

Cleveland’s Prehistoric Sea Monster Had A Mouth Twice As Large As A Great White Shark

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Sea Monster

Cleveland’s Prehistoric Sea Monster Had A Mouth Twice As Large As A Great White Shark It lived during the Age of the Fishes and was Earth’s first vertebrate ‘superpredator’. But it appears that scientists may have made some incorrect assumptions about the size and shark-like shape of the ‘strange’ beast that has now been nicknamed ‘Chunky Dunk’.  … Read more