science
A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert

Scientists were surprised to discover a fossilized tooth from a capybara that lived almost 9 million years ago in what is now northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. Chile’s Atacama Desert is an unlikely place to find traces of capybaras, the world’s largest living rodents, whose lives revolve around water and wetland plants. Yet a fossilized tooth [...]
ONLY AVAILABLE IN PAID PLANS
Read Full ArticleShare this story
Up next
Related Stories

Mouse study reveals magnetic nanoparticles' potential for ectopic pregnancy diagnosis and treatment
Phys.org

Wood beneath German lake may reveal buildings 3,000 years older than region's first farms
Phys.org

Seventeen K-Pop Robots Take Over Rockefeller Center, One Demands to Be Called a Soul
Hoodline

Four Sets of Abstract Moral Systems
Overcoming Bias Economics Blog

A home for ‘Inspiration': See the space shuttle mockup's future Downey building
Nbc Los Angeles