Tag: Fossil

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 11:09 UTC

  Fossils discovered in Uruguay could derail America’s population-origin theory

  

  Recent excavations in Uruguay to uncover and begin researching fossilized remains estimated to date back 29,000 years could shoot down the theory that the populating of the Americas came via the Bering Strait some 12,000 years ago, Uruguayan scientists said.

• Monday, April 19th 2010 - 21:09 UTC

  Fossil of giant predator squid found in northern Mexico

  

  Mexican and German researchers have found the fossil of a giant squid that lived in northern Mexico about 100 million years ago, the daily La Jornada reported Friday.