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taphonomy
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Storms that built a graveyard: ancient monsoons created a spectacular dinosaur fossil site
Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, UCL Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now…
How a 400,000-year-old elephant skeleton solved a tantalising puzzle of early human behaviour
Gerrit Dusseldorp, Leiden University One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank…
Why 90% of Fossils Are Missing
Scientists are piecing together the past by understanding the fossils that are not there as much as the ones that are.