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People use drugs from prehistoric times
According to a Spanish anthropology professor, humans use hallucinogens and opium poppies from the Stone Age.
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8,000 year old olive oil
Research by scientists has shown that olive oil has been pressed and used 8,000 years ago.
Archeology
Carnivore fossils 40 million years old
Fossils of a carnivorous plant are found in Baltic amber pieces dating to about 40 million years old.
Archeology
Discover the 'whole vegetable' diet of ancient Roman gladiators
Researchers have recently discovered a diet rich in plants and meatless Roman gladiators.
Archeology
Discovered new dinosaurs, dating back 200 million years
Swiss and British paleontologists have discovered new plant-eating dinosaurs, who lived in Venezuela during the early period of the Jurassic period about 200 million yea…
Archeology
Fecal fossil analysis of ancient people
Through analysis of fossil samples, experts found the old Neanderthals had an omnivorous diet.
Archeology
Fossil birds pollinate plants
Scientists at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt (Germany) have described a supposedly oldest fossil bird compared to previously collected specimens of a pl…
Archeology
The oldest fossil of rod-shaped insects
A group of scientists said they had found a color-coded insect fossil with nearby plants. This sample dates back to 126 million years.
Archeology
City of thousand years old at the bottom of the lake
An ancient city built in China from 1,300 years ago still retains many intact structures despite being located deep below the artificial lake.
Archeology
Amber contains plants of 100 million years old
A plant preserved in amber about 100 million years ago has revealed evidence of sexual reproduction of flowering plants.
Archeology
Little 3-year-old dinosaur drowned
A 3-year-old baby dinosaur drowned and sunk into sediment about 74 million years ago, recently discovered by scientists at Canadian dinosaur park.
Archeology
Detecting plant fossils 240 million years
Recent fossils discovered in Switzerland show that ancestors of flowering plants appeared 240 million years ago during the Early Triassic period.
Archeology
Fertilizers were used 8,000 years ago
During the Stone Age around 6,000 years BC, farmers knew how to use cattle manure such as cows, sheep, goats and pigs as a slow-release fertilizer for plants.
Archeology
Lettuce - the sexual
Not only is the popular salad ingredient, lettuce (lettuce) once considered by the ancient Egyptians as an aphrodisiac herb and used as a symbol for the penis, follows a…
Archeology
New hypothesis about dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are not cold-blooded because this will make them physically weak, a trait that is not suitable for animals that once ruled over the earth.