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Chechnya claims to find the most dinosaur
Archeology

Chechnya claims to find the most dinosaur

Chechnya National University has posted on its website images of egg-shaped objects protruding from the rock surface, claiming it to be a

December 17, 2018
Discover the secret of the giant ancient louse
Archeology

Discover the secret of the giant ancient louse

Scientists have discovered a great secret about giant lice longer than the Jurassic 2cm. They live on the sucking blood of feathered dinosaurs and hard scales on their s…

December 17, 2018
Excavation of 380 million year old fossil forest
Archeology

Excavation of 380 million year old fossil forest

The forest is located in the town of Gilboa, New York (USA) today excavated for the first time in the 1920s. But recently, a construction project helped discover the bot…

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
Decipher mysterious human bones in China
Archeology

Decipher mysterious human bones in China

The strange fossil bones that scientists found in southern China may be the remains of a new strain who lived with modern people more than 11,000 years ago.

December 17, 2018
Found Darwin's lost fossil
Archeology

Found Darwin's lost fossil

Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, an archaeologist at the University of London, said he stumbled across glass boxes to store fossils in a forgotten storage cabinet in a corner at t…

December 17, 2018