r/Naturewasmetal
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u/Peachy-Persimmons
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Jun 08 '20
An Argentinian Farmer Recently Found 20,000 Years Old Fossilized Glyptodons
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Salt_x • Oct 11 '20
This artist Tom Björklund draws neanderthals as people and not as biological specimens. I have to say, out of all the art i've seen of neanderthals, this is the one that humanizes them the most.
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u/ramence
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Mar 20 '23
Just saw Black Beauty - one of the most complete T. rex skeletons ever found! In classic 'death pose', her bones are black from a specific mineral exposure during fossilisation. Excited 5'5" primate for scale.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/BenQuadinaros2 • Aug 10 '19
How our perception of the Iguanodon had changed over the years!!!
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u/hconfiance
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Mar 22 '21
This rare 30,000 year rare blue mammoth tusk discovered in Alaska in 2017.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Peachy-Persimmons • Jun 23 '20
It may not look like much, but this tiny, billion-year-old green algae is the ancestor of all land plants on Earth.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/AddisonDeWitt_ • Aug 14 '20
The diversity among Homo Erectus around the world. Homo erectus existed for 1.9 million years and was the most succesful human species.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/TrilogyOfLife • Sep 11 '20
Human ancestor getting eaten alive by a leopard, biting him in the eyes. A real fossil was found of this, intact.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/spineofgod9 • Jun 10 '20
Made me think of permian synapsids.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/masiakasaurus • Mar 30 '21
When breeding, Australian gastric-brooding frogs (Rheobatrachus) would stop producing gastric acid, swallow their eggs, and carry them in their stomachs past metamorphosis. Extinct since 1985.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/TheGreatHsuster • Jan 25 '20
Triceratops femur (left) vs elephant femur
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Pardusco • Feb 14 '21
Columbian Mammoth remains excavated in Mexico. This species of mammoth has been found as far south as Nicaragua and Honduras.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/xindigothoughtsx • Sep 13 '20
Around 26000 years ago this lion cub was abandoned in a Siberian cave by her mother who either went hunting, or was killed never to return. Unable to feed herself, the cub dubbed Sparta starved and has been perfectly preserved since.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Animalnuttt • May 11 '20
Indohyus - The earliest known ancestor of the whale
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/tgood139 • Jul 28 '20
Livyatan is an extinct genus of sperm whale and is most notable for being a member of the raptorial Sperm whales (hyper-predatory Sperm whales) and having the strongest bite of any tetrapod.
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Peachy-Persimmons • Mar 20 '20
A prime specimen of T. Rex skin suggests that the king of dinosaurs was covered in scales, not feathers
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r/Naturewasmetal • u/Peachy-Persimmons • Jun 11 '20
Sue is the largest T.Rex to be found so far, at 90% of the body complete
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