Hundreds of exquisitely preserved mammal feces excavated from the famous La Brea Tar Pits have the potential to provide invaluable new insights into what Southern California was like in the Pleistocene Epoch.
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New Feathered Dinosaur From New Mexico Was Among the ‘Last of the Raptors’
A carnivorous dinosaur that once hunted in New Mexico was among the last of its kind, paleontologists say.
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America’s Earliest Traces of Potato Use Found at 10,900-Year-Old Utah Shelter
10,900-year-old stone tools found in Utah contain the earliest known evidence of potato use in North America, archaeologists say.
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Rock Art in Chaco Canyon May Depict Ancient Solar Eclipse, Experts Say
Experts say a petroglyph in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon may depict a solar eclipse from 920 years ago.
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World’s Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur, a ‘Mona Lisa’ of Fossils, Found in Alberta
The fossil of a dinosaur found in Alberta is so complete and well-preserved that it resembles a statue, scientists say.
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T. Rex Didn’t Have Feathers, New Study of Fossil Skin Finds
A new study says Tyrannosaurus and many other large carnivores of the Cretaceous were likely covered only in scales.
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America’s Most Complete Armored Dinosaur, Soft Tissues Intact, Found in Montana
The fossil of an armored dinosaur discovered in Montana is the most complete ever found in North America, paleontologists say, and it’s the first anywhere to be found with a complete skull and tail.
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Saber-Tooth Cats, Dire Wolves Found in La Brea Tar Pits Show Wounds From Ice Age Battles
The bones of saber-tooth cats and extinct dire wolves from downtown Los Angeles still bear the marks of injuries sustained in battle more than 11,500 years ago, researchers say.
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Mastodon Site in San Diego Said to Be Earliest Sign of Humans in America, Riling Skeptics
A new study claims that humans were hunting in California 130,000 years ago, but skeptics abound.
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Centuries Old Pemmican-Making Camp Uncovered in Montana
The camp, used by Blackfoot peoples from to the 14th to 17th centuries, sheds light on a key commodity of the pre-contact Northern Plains.
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N. America’s Oldest Bison Fossil Found, Revealing ‘Mother of All Bison’
A fossil bone found in Yukon reveals that all North American bison descended from a single female that crossed into the Americas less than 200,000 years ago.
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World’s Oldest Bed Bugs Found in Oregon Cave Where Ancient Americans Slept
Archaeologists have found the remains of bed bugs dating back 11,000 years — the oldest ever — in an Oregon cave thought to be among the earliest known sites of human habitation in the West.
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New Dinosaur Found in Montana Reveals Tyrannosaurs’ True Face (They Didn’t Have Lips)
A group of superbly preserved dinosaur fossils discovered in Montana are giving scientists the clearest picture yet of the giant theropods known as tyrannosaurs.
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Giant Skull Found in Alaska May Be Evidence of Elusive ‘King’ Polar Bear, Experts Say
A giant skull discovered in Alaska may belong to a subspecies of polar bear that’s new to scientists but familiar to indigenous people in the Arctic.
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Elite ‘Dynasty’ at Chaco Canyon Got Its Power From One Woman, DNA Shows
New DNA evidence shows that elite leaders at Chaco Canyon weren’t just members of the same class — they were members of the same extended family, a “dynasty” that traced its ancestry to a single woman.
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Chaco’s Elites Were Natives of Chaco Canyon, Not Migrants, Their Remains Show
The elites of Chaco Canyon were born and raised there, and weren’t migrants from distant regions, as many thought, new research finds.
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