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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, if it wasn't thousands of years old then it's either a forgery or a museum has some hijinks to investigate.

[–] ineffable 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"... Unearth a mammoth tusk buried since last Thursday morning..."

[–] agamemnonymous 2 points 10 months ago

Not particularly distinctive since most things we unearth were buried last Thursday