Paleozoology
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Echidna and Platypus May Have Common Ancestor
By: Sue Cartledge
30 million-year old fossils of monotremes, previously believed to be a Cretaceous platypus, have been shown to be closely related to present day ground-dwelling echidnas more...
Giant Birds Ate Flightless Moa in New Zealand
By: Sue Cartledge
A giant eagle, dating from the Pliocene era and preying on huge flightless birds, existed on New Zealand until modern times, becoming extinct only about 500 years ago more...
The Australian Fossil Mammal Site at Naracoorte
By: Ann Burnett
In 1969, a young paeleontologist, Dr Rod Wells, and his team broke through into a new section of the Victoria Cave at Naracoorte. What he found there changed his life. more...
Scientists hope that the remains of an intact baby mammoth will help them to determine what caused the mammoths' extinction 10,000 years ago. more...
Mammoths, extinct relatives of elephants, fascinate mankind from beyond the grave. They originated in Africa like humans and spread over the Northern Hemisphere. more...
Tuskology, the Study of Mammoth Tusks
By: Thomas Wyatt
Annual rings that tell stories are not peculiar to trees. The rings in the tusks of extinct mammoths allow information about their lives as well. more...
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