The results of excavations carried out by archaeologists investigating a hill in the Dartmoor region of England provide us with new information about the region.
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Evidence of giant elephant hunting by Neanderthals
According to analysis of 125,000 year old animal bones, Neanderthals hunted and killed prehistoric giant elephants, obtaining enormous quantities of meat that could sustain hundreds of people.
Ice Age (Pleistocene Epoch)
The weather on the planet is always changing. The temperature of the globe has fluctuated throughout the last two million years. Between the chilly Ice Age epochs, a sequence of warm times occurred. Around 18,000 BC, the last of the Ice Ages reached its apex.
Paleontologists discovered a rare fossil of an ancient dog species
Did they walk on their toes like today’s dogs? Did they burrow in the ground or live in trees? What food did they prey on and what animals preyed upon them? How did they relate to extinct doglike species that came before them? And, potentially, is this an entirely new undiscovered species? This new fossil is providing SDNHM scientists with a few more pieces of an incomplete evolutionary puzzle.