Tag: jaw
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A Homeowner Found Huge, Fossil Teeth While Mowing the Lawn. Then, Excavations Revealed a Complete Mastodon Jaw
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of Mastodon fossils. A homeowner was mowing his lawn in Orange County, New York when he spotted strange shaped poking up through his plants. His first thought was they were old baseballs. Subsequent digging revealed they were rather fossil teeth with a complete mastodon jaw. The prehistoric…
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A Jawbone Is the Oldest Modern-Human Fossil Outside of Africa
The Atlantic has a story about a recent discovery that threatens to rewrite the early history of modern humans. The find from an Israeli cave dates to between 177,000 and 194,000 years ago. These dates, along with a 315,000 year old fossil from Ethiopia, call into question the previous “Out of Africa” estimates of 50-60,000…
