The limestone caves, once a marshy wetland supporting a huge diversity of plant life and animals, have expelled an impressive quantity of
ancient mammal remains and fossil evidence of an early human - like primate ancestor.
Not exact matches
From skeletal
remains found among
ancient owl pellets, a team of scientists has recovered the first
ancient DNA of the extinct West Indian
mammal Nesophontes, meaning «island murder.»
These oil shales formed at the bottom of
ancient Lake Messel and preserve the
remains of
mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).