GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age and lived alongside giant extinct mammals.
Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen – the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia.
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art.
Sunspot AR-1476 is currently on its 5th day of a two week transit across the face of the sun. The "Monster Sunspot" has a 65% chance of more M-Class solar flares and a 10% chance of X-Class flares within the next 24 hours according to NOAA forecasters.