Discovery of Giant Sloth Skull Stands Origin Theory On Its Head
Discovery of Giant Sloth Skull Stands Origin Theory On Its Head
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina A 3.6 million-year-old giant sloth skull could change the theory about the history of the species in South America, scientists believe.
The perfectly preserved skull of a juvenile sloth, which was found by a team of researchers in Argentina, weighs nearly six tons and is five meters (16.4 feet) long. The location of the rest of the skeleton is not known.
The Megatherium fossil was found two years ago, along with many other prehistoric remains in San Eduardo del Mar, Buenos Aires.
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Last year, after a visit to London’s Natural History Museum and a lunch of three hardboiled eggs, U.K. singer-songwriter Tom Rosenthal’s now five-year-old daughter Fenn composed a charming love song. “Dinosaurs in Love” is, predictably, about dinosaurs who fall in love and spend their time happily having parties and eating fruit and cucumber. What
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Million-Year-Old Mammoth Teeth Contain Oldest DNA Ever Found
A woolly mammoth tusk discovered in a creek bed on Wrangel Island in 2017.
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An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA from mammoth teeth that is at least a million years old, if not older. This research, published today in Nature, not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth.
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Mammuthus primigenius) may rival
T. rex in popular imagination, but it is, in fact, one of the last mammoth species to have evolved, and it’s only one of various, sometimes odd-looking species of large, tusked animals belonging to the order Proboscidea. Mammoths are believed to have originated in Africa approximately 5 million years ago, with populations traveling north into what is now Eurasia and eventually moving into North America. We still have much to learn about these ancient proboscidean predecessor
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