Fossil Cave (5L81), formerly known as The Green Waterhole, is a cave in the Limestone Coast region of south-eastern South Australia. It is located in the...
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A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves...
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Cradle of Humankind (redirect from Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs)
contains a complex system of limestone caves. The registered name of the site in the list of World Heritage Sites is Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa. According...
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collection of Pleistocene megafaunal fossils from the caves was a 1908 collection reported by William Reddan from Specimen Cave. This collection was carried out...
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Kirkdale Cave is a cave and fossil site located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It was discovered...
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Maximum. Both the word cave and the scientific name spelaeus are used because fossils of this species were mostly found in caves. This reflects the views...
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Naracoorte Caves Alexandra Cave Blanche Cave Victoria Fossil Cave Wet Cave Gunns Plains Cave, Gunns Plains Mole Creek King Solomons Cave Marakoopa Cave Newdegate...
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columns. The cave is about 830,000 years old (making it the oldest known fossil cave site in the US) and 610 m long, featuring Pleistocene fossils, notably...
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A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis, lit. 'obtained by digging') is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past...
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systematic investigation of the cave has yielded Neanderthal and Homo sapiens fossils from the Palaeolithic era. One skull fossil, given the name Apidima 1...
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Cave The Grill Cave Argyle Cave Chalk Cave College Cave Mass "cathedral" cave Canberra Hole Odyssey (Note: Closed. For research use only) Fossil cave...
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Panthera spelaea (redirect from Beringian cave lion)
scientific name used by Georg August Goldfuss in 1810 for a fossil lion skull that was excavated in a cave in southern Germany. It possibly dates to the Würm glaciation...
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Heritage Site in South Africa. Recreational caving has occurred there since the 1960s. In 2015, fossils found there two years prior were determined to...
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previous fossil finds. MtDNA has also been recovered from an equine fossil, dating to around 32,000 years ago, taken from Denisova Cave. The equid fossil was...
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Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave is the sixth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and...
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Dynatoaetus (category Fossil taxa described in 2023)
the same time. The first fossil remains now identified as belonging to Dynatoaetus were discovered in 1956 and 1969 in Mairs Cave, located in the Flinders...
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Victoria Cave may refer to: A cave near Settle, North Yorkshire Victoria Fossil Cave in the Naracoorte Caves National Park, Australia Cueva Victoria [es]...
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American lion (redirect from American cave lion)
the largely Eurasian cave lion (Panthera spelaea), from which it is suggested to have split around 165,000 years ago. Its fossils have been found across...
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cave is 600 m (2,000 ft) southeast of the village Ballıca. Ballıca Cave is a fossil cave. Its overall length is 68 m (223 ft). The upper sections are composed...
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Lovelock Cave (NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about...
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Xirotiris, N. I. (6 August 1981). "ESR-dating of the fossil hominid cranium from Petralona Cave, Greece". Nature. 292 (5823): 533–36. Bibcode:1981Natur...
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Spy Cave and groups closest with other Late European Neanderthals. Homo sapiens occupation began around 35,000 years ago. Goyet accounts for fossils of...
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Lascaux (redirect from Lascaux cave)
ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical local contemporary fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the Upper...
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in Xiahe County, Gansu, China. This karst cave is the site of the discovery of the earliest hominin fossil found on the Tibetan Plateau, the Xiahe mandible...
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Iroungou cave Mbenaltembe cave Faucon cave Enkapune Ya Muto Kitum Cave Leviathan Cave Mau Mau Caves Njoro River Cave Paradise Lost Caves Kome Caves Ain Zayanah...
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Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation...
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Historic Places since 2005. Significant fossil discoveries bear witness to the early natural history of Organ Cave: giant ground sloth, grizzly bear, nine-banded...
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Malapa is a fossil-bearing cave located about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and...
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view from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of human evolution, 65(5), pp.585-593. Jawbone fossil found in Israeli cave resets clock for modern...
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Sydney. Blanche Cave, along with the nearby Victoria Fossil Cave, was added to the South Australian Heritage Register in 1984. Blanche Cave was discovered...
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