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Discovered an ancient snake-headed lizard
Archeology

Discovered an ancient snake-headed lizard

Argentine and American paleontologists have discovered fossils in the well-preserved condition of a newborn Plesiosauri that lived 70 million years ago in the South Pole.

December 17, 2018
Child 3 million years old
Archeology

Child 3 million years old

Ethiopian archaeologists found the remains of a 3-year-old girl called Dikika. She lived and died in the early days of human formation on earth. Try it

December 17, 2018
Discover fossils of a giant raptors
Archeology

Discover fossils of a giant raptors

According to Nature, the researchers first discovered intact skull bone fossils of a member of the bird family Phorusrhacidae.

December 17, 2018
Ancient camels are as big as an elephant
Archeology

Ancient camels are as big as an elephant

Ancient hunters hunted giant camels, as tall as elephants today, in the Syrian desert tens of thousands of years ago. Archaeologists are investigating where these camels…

December 17, 2018
Aztecs specialize in eating prisoners meat
Archeology

Aztecs specialize in eating prisoners meat

Human skeletons found in an excavation area in Mexico show that the Aztecs had captured, sacrificed and eaten hundreds of Spanish soldiers to invade in 1520.

December 17, 2018
Soft tissue found in frog fossils
Archeology

Soft tissue found in frog fossils

Scientists have isolated the bone marrow of frogs and salamanders that died 10 million years ago in peat swamps of northeastern Spain.

December 17, 2018
Hungary: Discovering mammoth elephant fossils
Archeology

Hungary: Discovering mammoth elephant fossils

The Institute of Geography at Hungary's Pecs University of Science has discovered fossil bones from a mammouth elephant near the southern village of Zok.

December 17, 2018
Dodo bones reveal the past
Archeology

Dodo bones reveal the past

A group of Dutch paleontologists discovered the lower half of a dodo, a long-extinct flying bird. Among the remnants include a hip bone attached to 4 pieces of leg bone.

December 17, 2018
Elephant meat - specialties of ancient people
Archeology

Elephant meat - specialties of ancient people

The corpse of an adult elephant surrounded by stone tools was found in Kent. Scientists believe that hunters used tools to cut elephant meat, after killing animals with…

December 17, 2018
Found the ancestors of modern birds
Archeology

Found the ancestors of modern birds

The 100-million-year-old exotic fossils found in China with bones, feathers and leg pads indicate that birds are now evolving from waterfowl.

December 17, 2018