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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3h

Elephants were on the menu for hominins living in Italy 400,000 years ago, and a rare fossil reveals the tools they used, as well as those they got out of the process.

www.iflscience.com/400000-year-...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 18h

Researchers have confirmed that the Red Sea once vanished entirely, turning into a barren salt desert before being suddenly flooded by waters from the Indian Ocean.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 21h

Using colorful Anolis lizards and math borrowed from finance, researchers have created the first model linking evolution over short and long timescales.

phys.org/news/2025-10...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

In 2006, scientists described a 125-million-year-old fossil unlike anything seen before — a prehistoric reptile with two heads.

www.iflscience.com/check-out-th...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to paleontologists.

nypost.com/2025/10/08/s...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

Learn more about the bearded vulture, which historically accumulated human-made materials such as strings, baskets, and bolts in the cliffs of southern Spain.

www.discovermagazine.com/vultures-sta...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

As many as 30,000 Romans fled the Pompeii ruined region in A.D. 79. But some returned, a new study reveals, and the city limped on as a fragile, ashen shantytown.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/s...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

Scientifically named Galgadraco zephyrius, a recently discovered species represents the first Brazilian azhdarchid pterosaur and bears striking similarities to a species from the Haţeg Basin of Romania.

www.sci.news/paleontology...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

A set of fossilized footprints discovered in northern Arizona has revealed the silent journey of a prehistoric arachnid that walked the Earth around 260 million years ago.

dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/foss...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

A 200-year-old rock painting in South Africa may depict a long-extinct tusked reptile, suggesting the Indigenous San people recognized fossils.

allthatsinteresting.com/south-africa...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

Researchers uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

Learn about the first Neanderthal tracksites found in the Iberian Peninsula, featuring footprints from adults, adolescents, and children.

www.discovermagazine.com/neanderthal-...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

Microbes in Japan’s iron-rich hot springs reveal how early life on Earth may have thrived in toxic, low-oxygen oceans billions of years ago.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

Fossil ear bones from a 67-million-year-old fish reveal that freshwater species evolved their sensitive hearing in the ocean before moving inland, reshaping the story of fish evolution.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos.

phys.org/news/2025-10...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

A new study led by a Yale researcher suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy collisions.

news.yale.edu/2025/10/01/p...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater on Mars once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its subterranean seas.

nypost.com/2025/10/01/s...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

Scientists discovered 200-year-old rock art in South Africa depicting a tusked creature, possibly linked to the ancient horned serpent of San legend.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

The fossil of a new species of Jurassic reptile, understood to be an ancient ancestor to lizards and snakes, has been discovered on the Isle of Skye.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 8d

It might be among the first mammals to go extinct in North America after colonization. But can scientists prove it was even a distinct species?

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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