Showing posts with label prehistory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prehistory. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Geologists discover lost world beneath the North Sea

Geologists discover mysterious ‘lost world’ beneath the North Sea - thestar.com
This is an image of a buried landscape discovered three kilometres beneath the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Scotland. Geologists believe it is part of a lost continent that disappeared about 55 million years ago.

About 55 million years ago, a massive chunk of land rose up from the
floor of the North Sea, giving birth to a wild and beautiful river
valley surrounded by steep mountains.


For a million years, this verdant landscape — about 200 kilometres
north of Scotland — was home to countless plant and wildlife species and
rushing, crystal clear rivers and streams.


Then, as quickly as it appeared, it sank back beneath the waves of the ocean, never to be seen again.

Until now.

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Great Dying

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A 47 million year old possible missing link found

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

BSG Finale, and what Earth 150,000 years ago was really like

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Missing Evolutionary Links

Monday, February 9, 2009

Mummy!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Titanboa

Largest prehistoric snake on record discovered in Colombia (Video)

Titanoboa cerrejonensisNamed
Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the size of
the snake's vertebrae suggest it weighed 1140 kg (2,500 pounds) and
measured 13 metres (42.7 feet) nose to tail tip. A report describing
the find appears in this week's
Nature.

Oldest animal fossils discovered

Friday, October 24, 2008

Tiny dinosaur discovery

Thursday, October 23, 2008

2,000 year old toy found near Stonehenge

a previously unknown species of crystalline magnetic fossils of a microorganism.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Stone Age - prehistoric drug kit found

Monday, October 6, 2008

570 million year old footprints

Oldest 'Footprints' on Earth Found | LiveScience
The oldest-known tracks of a creature apparently using legs have been discovered in rock dated to 570 million years ago in what was once a shallow sea in Nevada.

New findings about prehistoric cave paintings



Prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years to complete - Telegraph
Rather than being created in one session, as archaeologists previously thought, many of the works discovered across Europe were produced over hundreds of generations who added to, refreshed and painted over the original pieces of art.