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Dinosaur True Colors
Dinosaurs True colors revealed.
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Sex with Other Human Species Might Have Been Secret of Homo Sapiens’s Success
It is hard to imagine today, but for most of humankind's evolutionary history, multiple humanlike species shared the earth. As recently as 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens lived alongside several kindred forms, including the Neandertals and tiny Homo floresiensis.
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Archaeologists Are Unlocking a 1900-Year-Old Burial Chamber's Secrets—With Drones
Teotihuacan, an ancient, abandoned city about an hour north of Mexico City, was once one of the largest cities in the world. It collapsed in the centuries ago (thanks either to an internal uprising or foreign invaders, depending on who you ask), but it's never been completely deserted, since the...
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First New Dinosaur Discovered In Nearly A Decade
A pair of American researchers has announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur from Madagascar â the first such discovery in almost a decade.
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Digging Up Windsor's Earliest Queen: Photos
See photos of the excavation of a 4,400-year-old female skeleton that may be the first Windsor queen.
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Origins, unknown: where did the Maya empire really come from?
After a seven-year excavation, a new theory emerges.
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Nohmul Pyramid Bulldozed In Belize For Rocks
A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.
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Primate fossils aged 25 million years have been unearthed in Tanzania
Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli.
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Bahrain digs unveil one of oldest civilizations
Excavations at an archaeological site in Bahrain are shedding light on one of the oldest trading civilisations.
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Woolly Mammoth Blood Found in Preserved Carcass
Russian team says its discovery may yield living cells that could be used to clone the creature.
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Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea
It is a city shrouded in myth, swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and buried in sand and mud for more than 1,200 years. But now archeologists are unearthing the mysteries of Heracleion, uncovering amazingly well-preserved artifacts that tell the story of a vibrant classical-era port.
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Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle
The Australian researchers found a jungle-covered metropolis that predates the country's famous Angkor Wat complex by some 350 years.
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400-year-old skeleton of aboriginal woman found in Sarnia backyard costs couple $5,000
The story of Nicole Sauve, who found 400-year-old bones in her Point Edward backyard, was ordered to hire an archaeologist, and is now saddled with a $5,000 bill.
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Archaeologists find 'Chactun,' a long lost Mayan city in eastern Mexico
A team of archaeologists have found a long lost Mayan city in the rainforests of eastern Mexico, and they're hoping the discovery will help them figure out what led to the ancient civilization's rise and fall centuries ago.
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Bizarre 500-Million-Year-Old Creature Unearthed
A new fossilized, cigar-shaped creature that lived about 520 million years ago has been unearthed in Morocco.
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Unlooted Royal Tomb Found in Peru
Polish archaeologist Milosz Giersz was terrified that looters would make their way to the site, so he and his colleagues excavated the site in complete secrecy for months.
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Vampire burial ground found in Poland
Skeletons were found with their heads placed on their legs, indicating they had been subjected to execution designed to keep the dead dead
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23-Million-Year-Old Lizard Found In Amber
A beautiful gem or a scientist's dream? You can have both, as researchers in Mexico recently discovered after finding the remains of a 23-million-year-old lizard fossil, well preserved with soft tissue samples, in a small piece of amber.
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Ancient Native American Mound to be Destroyed for Walmart-owned Retail Warehouse
As if the destruction of one ancient archaeological site wasn’t enough, many similar sites of significant historical value across the world are disappearing at an alarming rate. Is this what “progress” looks like?
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This woman discovered ancient Egyptian pyramids from her North Carolina home
Amateur archaeologist Angela Micol found the buried, ancient structures on Google Maps.
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