A giant ground sloth, Megatherium americanum, may have looked like this before it went extinct. Robert Bruce Horsfall/public domain The Americas are full of beautiful and diverse creatures, but many ...
VERNAL — Utah researchers say a prehistoric camel bone found in Uintah County nearly four decades ago is much older than initially believed, and is helping to understand better what Utah's ecosystem ...
A fossil bone found in a sand pit in the 1980s near the Green River has turned out to be much older than originally suspected. It dates back to the Ice Age. The shin bone comes from a species of camel ...
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I fell into the sinkhole when I arrived. Soaked head to toe, and the nearest laundromat 10,000 years away. Stupid me. I remember what you said: only the hard parts survive. Just the bones fossilize, ...