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Detecting strange soil tissue
Archeology

Detecting strange soil tissue

Artificial soil that looks like an eel, a vulture or a duck discovered in North America may be evidence that ancient people rely on astronomy to cultivate crops. Accordi…

December 17, 2018
Human ancestors are ... eel?
Archeology

Human ancestors are ... eel?

An eel-like prehistoric creature found in Canada has been identified as the oldest ancestor of humans that science has ever known.

December 17, 2018
Discovered the oldest vertebrate creature
Archeology

Discovered the oldest vertebrate creature

Named Coronacollina acula, this creature was from 560-550 million years ago, ie during the Ediacaran period (630-542 million years ago), before the outbreak of life and…

December 17, 2018
Discover the oldest animal in Earth
Archeology

Discover the oldest animal in Earth

Scientists discovered fossils of a sponge-like creature dating back about 760 million years in Africa. This may be the first animal to appear on Earth.

December 17, 2018
Discovered ancient elephant footprints
Archeology

Discovered ancient elephant footprints

The world's oldest elephant footprints recently discovered in the Arab desert date back to 7 million years old. More specifically, these prehistoric elephant footprints…

December 17, 2018
Explore the most sacred place in ancient Egypt
Archeology

Explore the most sacred place in ancient Egypt

According to many records, the first Egyptian king, who was crowned nearly 5,000 years ago, was buried at Abydos. And this is also the place where ancient Egyptians alwa…

December 17, 2018
Small horses like ... cats
Archeology

Small horses like ... cats

Over 50 million years ago, Earth's temperatures were higher than now, and cat-only horses have a lot in North American forests.

December 17, 2018
Predators have insect eyes
Archeology

Predators have insect eyes

On December 8, Australian scientists announced the discovery of fossil eyes like insect eyes of ancient marine predators more than 500 million years ago, according to AF…

December 17, 2018
The 25,000-year-old painting
Archeology

The 25,000-year-old painting

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences magazine on November 7 published a 25,000-year-old painting of ancient black-spotted white horses.

December 17, 2018