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The oldest fossil bone human excavated outside Africa
This discovery is the oldest human fossil bone outside Africa and Levant, the area surrounding the eastern Mediterranean (including Israel) and the largest human remains…
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Archeopteryx dinosaurs fly like pheasants
An international research team used strong X-rays to look inside the bone of the species, showing that they are nearly empty, like modern birds.
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Discover the richest pirate skeleton in history
Samuel 'Black Sam' Bellamy died with a 140-person crew on the shipwreck Whydah during a violent storm off Cape Cod in 1717.
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My mother hugged me for 6,000 years in the Netherlands
Archaeologists found the oldest burial site of a child at a site in the autonomous region of Nieuwegein in the province of Utrecht, dating from the Stone Age, the Intern…
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The most intact bird fossil in amber 99 million years
The body pressed by the small bird that lived 99 million years ago was discovered wrapped in a chiseled amber slab in Myanmar, National Geographic reported on February 2.
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Ancient instruments still play well after 1,700 years
Archaeologists discovered a lipstick in the Altai Mountains, Russia, that could produce sounds after 1,700 years, National Geographic reported yesterday.
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Discovered large bats from fossils 19 million years
An international team of scientists, led by the University of New South Wales, Australia discovered fossils of a new giant bat species in the town of St Bathans, on Sout…
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The perfect beauty of an 18-year-old girl living at 9,000 years ago
According to Reuters, after analyzing teeth and bones, scientists believe that the young girl named Dawn, who lived 9,000 years ago, is about 15-18 years old.
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Science proves: Prehistoric women are stronger than most modern men
A study published in November 2017 in Science Advances compares the bone structure of modern women with stone, bronze and medieval women.
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Humans and sharks have the same ancestors
According to a new report published by the University of Chicago research team (USA), at 440 million years ago, a common ancestor of humans and sharks once existed on Ea…
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The bone fragment of Santa's prototype
Experts at Keble University discovered a piece of pelvis could belong to Saint Nicholas, Santa's (Santa Claus) prototype today, Yahoo News reported on December 6.
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Discovered the body of the creature of today resembling dinosaurs 65 million years ago
According to the Daily Star, the mysterious remains of the intact creature, both the flesh and bone, were discovered by an electrical engineer underneath the subway stat…
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Ancient people eat dogs to turn into
The team discovered at least 64 dog family species, mainly dogs and some species of wolves, worshiped in the Srubnaya people living in Krasnosamarskoe, near the Ural Mou…
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Find the most ancient human bones in unexpected places
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, about 100km west of what is today the city of Marrakesh of Morocco, a group of people living in the cave noticed the lush landscape o…
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We have become more extinct with the Neanderthals than we thought
A newly excavated 52,000-year-old piece of bone in Croatia has revealed more about the origins of humanity.