Ancient Bison Bone Found in Texas
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A research dig on the site of a proposed Lubbock zoo has turned up a pieces of an ancient bison bone. Daniel Rafuse &#151; one of a three-person team from Texas Tech University and the Lubbock Lake Landmark working the site &#151; said that the bone was found nearly 7 feet below the surface.
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US scientists find a weapon fragment inside a whale dating back to the 19th century.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  An amazing new tool for dating ancient remains, a luminescence geochronology laboratory, has been installed at Utah State University.
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The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
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Construction crews working at Beijing's main airport unearthed a fossilized thigh bone of an elephant that lived 30,000 years ago, a news report said Thursday.
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A rare fossil from the age of the dinosaurs is shedding light on when the modern crocodile first evolved a skull strong enough to keep hold of its prey during the dismembering &#39;death roll&#39;.
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A newly discovered fossil could be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China.
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A group of paleontologists have discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, or large mammoth-like mammal, that lived some three million years ago, the head of the team told AFP Monday.
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The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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Archeologists say a prehistoric skeleton and campsite discovered on the muddy shore of Lake Travis could be between 700 and 2,000 years old.
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For decades, Federico Solorzano has gathered old bones from the shores of Mexico's largest lake &#151; bones he found and bones he was brought, bones of beasts and bones of men.
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WASHINGTON Nov 25, 2004 - Big game hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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Archaeologists said Wednesday they had found evidence that humans lived in North America at least 50,000 years ago, far earlier than has been thought.