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The rodent called Jeholbaatar kielanaeis is part of a mammal species that survived the onslaught of an asteroid that ended the dinosaur era on Earth.
The giant short-faced Kangaroo can reach 2.7 m high and weighs 240 kg when it matures, twice as large as the largest living kangaroo.
The carved stone statues are humanoid with shoulders, neck and head quite pronounced, averaging 50cm tall.
If you think giraffes are only in Africa, then you must be mistaken, in the past, Asia also existed and China owned a very strange head giraffe.
The 66-year-old man was lucky to discover a jar containing thousands of coins, some 100 years old, on the land bought with lottery money.
Genetic studies of the United States, India and Singapore have uncovered the truth of the scary Rakshasas: another human being who once lived and married with our modern…
Scientists have discovered that fossils act like a missing link in the evolution of penguins, after they evolved from dinosaurs.
Our oldest homeland may be a snow circle - the beautiful water around the young sun, which provides materials to shape the earth and its neighbors.
Ancient paintings are a valuable resource for science to discover countless mysteries obscured by the dust of time. For example, pasta dishes which are eaten by nobility…
The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry said researchers had unearthed an unusually large animal mummy, most likely a lion mummy.
US scientists have discovered an unexpected event that could have caused the ancient Neanderthals to become extinct, leaving the Earth with only one species of his genus…
Archaeologists from Samara Polytech University came to examine the wreck located at a depth of 10 m under the Volga River, near the city of Samara.
Just a few meters below the modern capital of Mexico, a series of temples, palaces and artifacts from an ancient kingdom are being excavated.
New research suggests that it was climate change that caused the Neo-Assyrian empire, a superpower in the near-east, to exist for nearly 300 years, wither in the 7th cen…