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As we go about our daily lives, it’s easy to forget that the places we find ourselves weren’t always the way they are now. While people driving down Highway 163 in Utah’s Monument Valley may be awestruck by the towering red rocks, they may not think about what those rocks signify — the floor of an ancient ocean. In some places, history is simply hidden by the passage of time.
A 70 million-year-old fossil unearthed in Transylvania is a newfound species of freshwater turtle that likely survived the extinction event that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.
The specimen shows that modern tuatara found in New Zealand are little changed from ancestors that lived 190 million years ago.
More than 12,000 years ago, South America was teeming with an astonishing array of ice age beasts — giant ground sloths the size of a car, elephantine herbivores and a deerlike animal with an elongated snout.
These extinct giants are among many animals immortalized in an 8-mile-long (13-kilometer-long) frieze of rock paintings at Serranía de la Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon rainforest — art created by some of the earliest humans to live in the region, according to a new study.
Oldest Fossils of Egyptian Cobra Ancestors Found in Fayoum Depression
A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age