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Archive for the ‘Archeology’ Category

1960s cartoon show The Flintstones showed us many of the ways in which stone-age man lived.

Technologies such as bird-beak record players, pterodactyl airplanes and rock-breaking brontosauri were abundant at the time. Somehow, we lost our ability to use them, taking thousands of years to rediscover different ways of reproducing them.

And today we have news of another way in which stone-age man was way ahead of his time: the discovery of an ancient stone phallus which was used for striking flints and…you know.

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Published online today in the journal Proceedings of The Royal Society B (Biological Sciences), is a paper which describes fossils of a new kind of flying dinosaur, or pterosaur.
Chronologically, the creature falls between two known stepping stones of pterosaur evolution.
Morphologically, however, the fossils are somewhat surprising, and seem to provide evidence to support the ‘Modular Evolution‘ theory.

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