Ancient mammoth bones marked by human butchering have been found in Michigan, shedding new light on the timeline of human presence in the state. The discovery was made in 2015, when soybean farmer James Bristle found an enormous rib bone on his farm just outside Chelsea. When paleontologists from the University of Michigan came to investigate, they found the skull and bones of … [Read more...] about Ancient Mammoth Bones Found in Michigan Suggest Human Butchering and Reveal New Insights into Early History
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Triceratops
Triceratops, (genus Triceratops), large quadrupedal plant-eating ceratopsian dinosaur that had a frill of bone at the back of its skull and three prominent horns. Fossils of “three-horned face,” as its Latin name is usually translated, date to the final 3 million years of the Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago), … [Read more...] about Triceratops
This 4,000-year-old skull just received a new face
This article published BY NINA STROCHLIC in National Geographic Magazine Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her face. For 4,000 years, a woman lay undisturbed in a stone-lined grave amid the forests of northeastern Sweden. She had likely followed animal migrations through the … [Read more...] about This 4,000-year-old skull just received a new face