Browsing by Subject "fossils"

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    • ₱1.2-B giant clam shells seized in Palawan; 4 nabbed 

      Miranda, Romar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 18, 2021, on page A3)
      About 200 tons of fossilized giant clam shells valued at around P1.2 billion were seized by authorities from four men who were arrested in Palawan province in the biggest recovery so far of the bivalves which are much-coveted ...

    • 400 million-year-old fish fossils found in China 

      Associated Press (AP) (The Manila Times, September 30, 2022, on page A3)
      A big catch of fish fossila in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found-and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about key period of evolution that's been ...

    • Ancient megashark tooth stolen 

      (Panay News, March 14, 2018, on page 14)
      A tooth that belonged to an ancient giant shark has been stolen from a World Heritage Site in Australia, authorities have said.

    • Climate change will stall PH, SE Asia growth 

      Celis, Angela (Malaya, January 12, 2016, on page A1-A4)
      Climate change will stall growth in Southeast Asian countries including the Philippines. David Raitzer, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department project officer and economist, said ...

    • Fossil ng higante, 70M-taon na isda natagpuan sa Argentina 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Balita, July 8, 2020, on page 6)
      Isang higanteng 70 milyong taon na fossil ng isang isda na nabuhay kasabay ang dinosaurs ay nadiskubre sa Argentine Patagonia, sinabi ng isang grupo ng researchers nitong Lunes. Natagpuan ng Argentine paleontologists ang ...

    • Fossils clear up Cambrian mystery 

      Wilford, John Noble (Manila Bulletin, June 10, 2010, on page 11)
      The Moroccan fossils include sponges, worms, trilobites and mollusks like clams, snails and relatives of the living nautilus. Another fossil was similar to today's horseshoe crab, a biological throwback familiar to ...

    • How a fossil of an extinct shark was unearthed in Bohol 

      Udtohan, Leo (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 6, 2020, on page A6)
      Sometime in May, after the island-province of Bohol went on a more relaxed quarantine, four friends decided to take their minds off the coronavirus pandemic still raging elsewhere in the country by going for a hike up the ...

    • Humans threaten crucial 'fossil' groundwater - study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Philippine Star, April 27, 2017, on page B7)
      Human activity risks contaminating pristine water locked underground for millennia and long thought impervious to pollution, said a study Tuesday that warned of a looming threat to the crucial resource. Even at depths of ...

    • New species of ancient 4-legged whale found 

      BBC (Panay News, August 28, 2021, on page 9)
      Scientists in Egypt identified a new species of four-legged whale that lived around 43 million years ago. The fossil of the amphibious Phiomicetus anubis was originally discovered in Egypt’s Western Desert.

    • Turtle fossil 

      Reuters (Manila Bulletin, September 6, 2012, on page B-8)
      Doctor Tomasz Sulej cleans the oldest existing fossil of a turtle at the Institute Paleontology in Warsaw, Tuesday. The fossil which is approximately 250 million years old was found near the village of Poreba in Jura ...