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Test of 1,000-year-old dog mummy DNA
Archeology

Test of 1,000-year-old dog mummy DNA

According to a reporter in Mexico, dog mummies, about 42cm long and 22cm high, were found in 1953 at Candelaria Cave in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, along w…

December 17, 2018
Detecting collective dead turtle fossils
Archeology

Detecting collective dead turtle fossils

'Bone overlaps with bones, we couldn't believe our eyes,' said Oliver Wings, a paleontologist and honorary researcher at the Naturkunde museum in Berlin.

December 17, 2018
'Vampire' dinosaurs in Africa
Archeology

'Vampire' dinosaurs in Africa

A small dinosaur that lived 200 million years ago possessed fangs like vampires, parrot-like beaks, and hard hair like porcupines.

December 17, 2018
Found more than 40,000 years old skull in Laos
Archeology

Found more than 40,000 years old skull in Laos

The skull fragments discovered by archaeologists in 2009 in a cave in Laos show that the early migration of modern humans took place 20,000 years earlier than previous r…

December 17, 2018
Complete 'portrait' of a 50,000 year old girl
Archeology

Complete 'portrait' of a 50,000 year old girl

After analyzing the finger bone fragment gene of an ancient girl, Denisova's hair, skin and eyes were all brown. At the same time, scientists also shed light on genetic…

December 17, 2018
Southeast Asia - the cradle of chickens
Archeology

Southeast Asia - the cradle of chickens

New England University experts at Armidale studied ancient DNA (called DNA mitochondria) in 48 ancient chicken bones and found similar traces present in chickens everywh…

December 17, 2018