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After 1.5 million years ago (extinction of Paranthropus), all fossils shown are human (genus Homo). After 11,500 years ago (11.5 ka, beginning of the Holocene), all fossils shown are Homo sapiens (anatomically modern humans), illustrating recent divergence in the formation of modern human sub-populations.
People first uncovered fossils around San Pedro High School in 1936. They were ancient shells belonging to snails and other mollusks from tens of thousands of years ago.
List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits, California, United States; List of fossil species in the London Clay, England; List of White Sea biota species by phylum, Russia; Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation, northern United States; Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation, western United States
Fossils — of prehistoric plants, animals, fungi, and algae. As well as some genera/species that are still extant, yet have an extensive fossil record. Subcategories.
A microscope image of subdermal muscle from the ancient skin shows remnants of mammoth nuclei. The new study revealed that fossils of ancient chromosomes survive in this skin sample.
A fossil of an extinct therapsid Australobarbarus at the Natural History Museum of Helsinki. Fossils of Finland consist of animal fossils and plant fossils spanning multiple geological eras, associated with the fields of paleontology and paleobotany. Fossils in Finland span the Precambrian and Cenozoic eras.
Elrathia kingii growth series with holaspids ranging from 16.2 mm to 39.8 mm in length. Elrathia is a genus of trilobite belonging to Ptychopariacea known from the mid-Cambrian of Laurentia (North America). [2]
The fossils, estimated to date back 90 million years, were part of a new dinosaur species previously unknown in East Asia. It’s unclear how long Port Island will remain closed to visitors.