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Flash flood accidentally reveals 'heavenly treasure': So rare that it shocked China and the world!
Rarely found anywhere else in the world
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Shocking Fact: Our Beastly Ancestors Were Scarier Than Tyrannosaurus Rex
New analysis of the Whatcheeria beast, whose partial remains were found in the United States, has led paleontologists to call it a super predator.
Archeology
Ancient animal fossils discovered in cave in Ha Long Bay
This is a mammal, estimated to be over 1 meter long, and is about 10,000 years old.
Archeology
Fossil of 'Chinese dragon' that lived 240 million years ago found
The marine reptile known as the Chinese dragon has a 2.3-meter-long neck with 32 cervical vertebrae, which helps it ambush prey underwater.
Animal world
Admire the 'living fossils' that exist around us
Naturalist Charles Darwin was the first to coin the term
Archeology
Top 8 largest dinosaurs on prehistoric Earth
The enormous size of these dinosaurs will amaze you.
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Why are pandas only found in China?
Surely all of us have heard the name panda at least once - a lovely animal considered as a
Archeology
Australia successfully decoded fossils that lived about 247 million years ago
Australian scientists have successfully decoded the fossil of an ancient amphibian that lived about 247 million years ago.
Archeology
400-million-year-old fossil changes thinking about Fibonacci spiral
Plant fossils from more than 400 million years ago have irregular structures, unlike most plants today which follow the Fibonacci spiral.
Archeology
100 million year old fossil of cannibalistic mosasaur
A mosasaur fossil from Angola contained the remains of three other mosasaurs in its stomach, revealing the cannibalistic habits of the prehistoric ocean lord.
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Energy source from super hot 374 degree C rock underground
Scientists study super-hot rocks at depths of nearly 10km as a potential renewable energy source to replace fossil fuels.
Archeology
Revealing important secrets about human evolution
Several 300,000-year-old human fossils discovered in Hualong Cave in Anhui Province, China, have been identified as the earliest hominin species in East Asia to evolve i…
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Humans are all born from women, so where did the first woman come from before humans?
The origin of mankind is one of the eternal mysteries of anthropology and biology.
Archeology
280 million year old 'alien' fossil discovered in Western Australia
This 280 million year old fossil has such a strange and confusing shape that many people, upon first glance, will definitely think it is an alien fossil.