8.7 million years ago is a long, long time, even in geological times. The world was a very different place back then and that alone is fascinating. And the fact that fossils from that long ago sea are still being discovered is amazing. To think about what we can learn...
Sabretooth salmon? They found a jawbone of a fish called a sabertooth salmon. Did you know such a being ever existed?
Researchers uncovered two distinct sites on campus where new buildings were under construction: a bone bed dating back 8.7 million years in the Miocene era and a shell bed about 120,000 years old from the Pleistocene era.
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