New Pyramid Found in Mexico City
I giant 1,500 year-old pyramid has been found beneath a hill in Mexico City. The Pyramid is 60 ft high and as large at the base as the famous Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacà n.
The pyramid is in a working class district of Mexico City and has been partially destroyed by building homes and Christians crucifying people. (Some things never change.)
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Scientists find a missing link between fish and land animals
Gosh, another good day in paleontology.
375-380 million years ago, this fellow took the first steps on land…
Named Tiktaalik Roseae after an Inuit word for “large freshwater fish” he won’t have too many children named after him, but he sure did a favor for all of us land-dwellers.
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Bones from huge dinosaur found on Chathams
This article from the New Zealand Herald talks about new land-based dinosaur discoveries on Chathams, an island off New Zealand.
Generally, New Zealand was not thought to have land-dwelling dinosaurs until these discoveries.
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