Artificial Intelligence Used to Home in on New Fossil Sites
Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 17:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
FREIGHTER GAP, Wyo.--On blisteringly hot desert sands, researchers crawled on their hands and knees avoiding fist-size cacti littering the ground. Their goal: collecting bones and teeth of some of the earliest known primates that might help explain the evolution of the human branch of the evolutionary tree. The fossils, though, are the size of a fingernail or smaller, and they are scattered over an area of about 10,000 square kilometers in the rocky desert of Wyoming's Great Divide Basin. [More]