The year in paleontology around the American West was full of surprises, and so is Western Digs’ most-read natural history news of 2016.
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Top 5 Archaeology Discoveries in the American West of 2016
Glass blades, unusual crescent-shaped tools, and a “shadow dagger” were some of the more striking finds reported this year by archaeologists around the American West.
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Top 5 Fossil Finds in the American West in 2015
Enormous arthropods and dinosaurs that looked like ostriches are among the fossil finds that captured your imagination this year. Check out the five most-read paleontology stories of 2015, and learn all about the year’s top discoveries from around the ancient West.
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Top 5 Archaeology Discoveries in the American West of 2015
Discover the surprising, enlightening, and sometimes disturbing finds behind Western Digs’ five most popular archaeology stories of 2015.
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Western Digs’ Top 5 Archaeology Stories of 2014
They were made at sites ranging from Hawaii to Colorado. They date back to the dawn of agriculture in the Southwest and to the end of the last ice age…
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Western Digs’ Top 5 Paleontology Stories of 2014
A red-headed mammoth, a cave piled high with ancient animal remains, and an unusual South Dakota dinosaur are all among the discoveries that shaped Western Digs’ most popular paleontology stories of…
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Western Digs’ Top 5 Paleontology Stories of 2013
A hundred million years ago, much of the territory that Western Digs covers was under water. But a large slice of it was dry land — a mini-continent that stretched…
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Western Digs’ Top 5 Archaeology Stories of 2013
The topics range from butchered human remains to video games. The stories they tell come from as long ago as 10,500 years, and as recently as the 1980s. Of the…
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