Extinct

Gigantopithecus or Paranthropus?

Which do you favor? What’s you vote in finding a place in the family tree for the best possible candidate for Bigfoot?

Were Hobbits Relict Homo erectus?

There is a new analysis of the skull of Homo floresiensis, compared with others. Images.

Scimitar Felid Found In SA Tar Pit

Also found were giant ground sloths, glyptodons, horses, llamas, crocodiles, ducks, herons, and the rhino-like Mixotoxodon. Many images.

“The asphalt-preserved animals could rival those of Rancho La Brea,” said Christopher Shaw, collections manager at Los Angeles’s George C. Page Museum, which handles the La Brea collection.