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Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with the African Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
For the first time, fossils of tardigrades ("water bears") and apparently free-living pentastomids have been found. The Cambrian strata consist of alum shales with limestone nodules (the Alum Shale Formation ), which are interpreted as the products of an oxygen-depleted ("dysoxic") [ b ] marine bottom water habitat of a possibly offshore ...
The New Zealand parrot superfamily, Strigopoidea, [1] consists of at least three genera of parrots – Nestor, Strigops, the fossil Nelepsittacus, [2] [3] and probably the fossil Heracles. [4] The genus Nestor consists of the kea, kākā, Norfolk Island kākā and Chatham kākā, [5] [6] while the genus Strigops contains the iconic kākāpō. [5]
The new fossil is the first to be discovered so far north in South America, and was found after over 100 years of research at the La Venta badlands, a fossil site in Colombia, the researchers said
The adzebills, genus Aptornis, were two closely related bird species, the North Island adzebill, (Aptornis otidiformis), and the South Island adzebill, (Aptornis defossor), of the extinct family Aptornithidae. The family was endemic to New Zealand. A tentative fossil species, (Aptornis proasciarostratus), is known from the Miocene Saint Bathans ...
Charles Hazelius Sternberg (June 15, 1850 – July 20, 1943) was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils for Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel C. Marsh, and for the British Museum, the San Diego Natural History Museum and other museums.