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Friday, November 20, 2009

After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape

Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, ...  > full story

Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere

Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from ...  > full story

Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions

Researchers have uncovered a strikingly pattern for ancient mass extinctions: extinctions rates during mass extinctions were ...  > full story

Cousins of Prehistoric Supercrocodile Inhabit Lost World of Sahara

Fossils of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara. ...  > full story
 

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