A three-year drought likely resulted in catastrophic harvest reduction or even complete failure, which spelled doom for the Hittites.
Experts believe that the discovery will help fill a gap in the fossil record.
According to new research out of the University of Kansas, early primates were able to adapt to life in the warm climate of prehistoric Canada.
76 Caecilian fossils have been found, and dated at 220 million years old, changing what scientists thought they knew about evolution
Paleontologists analyzed the sediments to determine what kind of organic material the birds were surrounded by when they were buried and how the sediments were deposited.
Researchers believe the flower could originate from an ancient plant called Stewartia kowalewskii.
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