Tag Archives: Fossil

Czech Cave Sheds Light On Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Transition

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: International Business Times Himanshu Goenka International Business Times June 15, 2017 Sometime just over 40,000 years ago, the last surviving cousins of the modern humans, Homo Neanderthals, likely met their Homo sapiens … Continue reading

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Human Evolution’s Biggest Questions May Find Answers in New Analysis

I can imagine Evangelical Christians reading this article, not that many of them would, and thinking how false the whole thing is; instead believing the Adam and Eve myth described in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Some of the people … Continue reading

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Our life with the Neanderthals was no brief affair

Wouldn’t it be interesting if it had been the Neanderthals that would have survived and ‘modern humans’ that would have become extinct? One thing is for sure, women would be spending a whole lot more money on razor blades and … Continue reading

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Warm blooded or cold? Dinosaurs were somewhere in between

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham June 12, 2014 4:11 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The hot question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, fish and amphibians … Continue reading

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11-Million-Year-Old Weird Worm Lizard Discovered

Interesting stuff…TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer A profile view of the skull of an 11.6 million-year-old worm lizard, reconstructed with a CT scan. They look like snakes, but don’t be fooled: Legless, slithering … Continue reading

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Sea creature fossil found with oldest-known cardiovascular system

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – You’ve heard of having a heart of stone, but this old guy takes it literally. Scientists said on Monday they have found a fossil of … Continue reading

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Primitive Fish With Butt Fins Reveals Quirks of Evolution

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | LiveScience.com A 370-milion-year-old, primitive fish sported a weird pair of fins just below its anus, new research shows. The strange appendages, detailed today (April 9) … Continue reading

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Fossils show huge penguin once roamed New Zealand

My “apologies” to evangelical Christians who may stumble upon this article. I realize it goes against their beliefs that the world is only several thousand years old. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press AFP Fossilised remains of one … Continue reading

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Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it’s possible

Thanks to science we continue to learn more and more about the world around us and the universe at large. This is fascinating stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Kate Kelland | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists … Continue reading

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