19 Fascinating Fossils From Pre-Historic Times
Nathan Johnson
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11/26/2020
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Fossils offer a fascinating window into the past.
Our planet is old AF, and there have been a lot of wild and wonderful creatures that have roamed its expanses over the millennia, from dinosaurs and giant turtles the size of a car to humanity's own prehistoric ancestors. Understanding how they lived and died can tell us a LOT about the history of the planet.
Our planet is old AF, and there have been a lot of wild and wonderful creatures that have roamed its expanses over the millennia, from dinosaurs and giant turtles the size of a car to humanity's own prehistoric ancestors. Understanding how they lived and died can tell us a LOT about the history of the planet.
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The Absolutely Stunning Size Of This Argentinosaurus's Leg (And A Human For Scale) -
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This Fossil Of A Borealopelta Found At A Suncor Energy Oil Sands Mine Said To Be The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Fossil Of Its Size Ever Found -
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This Massive 8-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell Fossil That’s The Size Of A Car—Also, It Was A Species Of Battle Turtles! -
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This Edmontosaurus Mummy, Or AMNH 5060, The First Dinosaur Specimen Found To Include A Skeleton Encased Inside Skin Impressions -
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These Extinct Mollusks—Ammonites, Which Became Iridescent During Their Fossilization Process -
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The Altamura Man, A Fossil Considered One Of The Oldest Found Remains Of A Neanderthal Man By Being At Least 128,000 Years Old -
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Fossilized Crinoids That Ended Up Being The Inspiration For The Monsters Featured In The Horror Movie ‘Alien’ -
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Whale Valley, Home To Hundreds Of Fossils Of Some Of The Earliest Forms Of Whales, All Pretty Intact -
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A 248-Million-Year-Old Fossil Of A Chaohusaurus Mother Giving Birth -
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This Mesmerizingly Opalized Tooth Of A Dinosaur Found In Lightning Ridge, Australia (Ca. 110M Years Ago) -
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A Not One, But Two-Headed Reptile From The Cretaceous Age Of China -
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The Largest Fossilized Human Feces Found On Earth So Far Named The Lloyds Bank Coprolite -
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A Velociraptor And A Protoceratops Fossilized Mid-Battle -
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This Fossilized Skin Impression Of The Hadrosaur Named 'Dakota' -
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The World’s First Complete T-Rex Skeleton That’s 67 Million Years Old -
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This Upright Fossil Tree Embedded In The Side Of A Cliff Formation -
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A Fossil Of A Prehistoric 68-Million-Year-Old Snake Curled Around Eggs And A Baby Dinosaur, Ready To Eat It (Fossil Top, Recreation Bottom) -
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This 47-Million-Year-Old Fossil Of Two Turtles ‘Caught In The Act,’ And The First Of Its Kind -
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Leonardo, The Fully Intact Mummified ‘Short-Crested Lizard’ Brachylophosaurus From 77 Million Years Ago
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