Prehistoric fossil

Prehistoric fossil

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine (L) discovered at an archeological site overlooking the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel called Nahal Ein Gev II; an artistic reconstruction of the figurine (R). The images were released on 17 November 2025. Photo: Laurent Davin and Vic Oh/Handout via REUTERS

Figurine of a woman and a goose offers peek at prehistoric beliefs

The goose is positioned on the crouching woman's back with its wings spread in a typical mating posture

Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, founder and director of the paleontology department at the Museum of Natural History of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, shows the fossil remains of a crocodile that inhabited the planet seven million years ago, giving scientists clues about how modern day crocodiles, who live in freshwater ecosystems, come from the sea, in Lima, Peru May 16, 2022. Picture taken May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

Prehistoric fossil in Peru sheds light on marine origin of crocodiles