Paleontology

Fossil evidence of a completely unknown prehistoric species of giant sand worm has been discovered in Devon, England. The giant worms would have lived 260 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, growing up to 3ft long and 6in wide. Large burrow holes were found indicating that the creatures would have travelled beneath the surface."Scientists have found evidence of a giant prehistoric sand worm in an English seaside resort.

Proof of the creatures" existence, which lived 260million years ago, has been found in Torbay, Devon. The worms, which grew up to 3ft long and 6in wide, are thought to have lived underground before dinosaurs roamed the earth. Experts at the English Riviera Geopark organisation have found large burrow holes that are said to have been made bythe creatures as they travelled beneath the surface. "

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These giant, flightless birds that roamed South America 50 million years ago would have been fearsome predators.New research has unveiled the facts behind the terror birds" huge and powerful beaks that would have been capable of delivering a deadly blow to their victims. They are popularly called "terror birds", and with good reason.

The giant, flightless beasts that roamed South America for more than 50 million years following the demise of the dinosaurs were fearsome predators.

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A new university study has suggested that mammoths died out due to dwindling grasslands rather than being hunted.Unlike previous studies suggesting that mammoths could have been hunted to exinction by humans the new research has raised the possibility that a decline in pasture would have greatly contributed to the giant mammals"demise.

Woolly mammoths died out because of dwindling grasslands - rather than being hunted to extinction by humans, according to a Durham University study. After the coldest phase of the last ice age 21,000 years ago, the research revealed, there was a dramatic decline in pasture on which the mammoths fed.

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Scientists have found evidence that stone tools were used to cut meat almost 1 million years earlier than thought.The discovery which was made in Ethiopia completely rewrites the history books, extends the Stone Age back almost 1 million years and adds a whole new chapter to the story of our past. Scientists have discovered evidence ofthe use of stone tools to eat meat 3.

4 million years ago – 800,000 years earlier than previously thought. The find means that our first ancestor to use tools was not Homo "the handy man" Hablis but Australopithecus afarensis, the half ape, half human, nicknamed "Lucy" when her skeleton was found in 1976.

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