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Massive, meat-eating predatory dinosaur unearthed
It lived about 100 million years ago, weighed four tons and likely was at the very top of its prehistoric food chain. Researchers from Chicago's Field Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University announced Friday the discovery of Siats meekerorum, a dinosaur that stretched more than 30 feet long, in eastern Utah.
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Crossrail: Britain's biggest archaeological dig will transform London
Crossrail is not just about engineering: artists, designers and archaeologists are all involved in the £15bn new railway. As the amazing tunnel-boring machines approach halfway, Rowan Moore dons his hard hat and goes below
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10,000-year-old house among amazing finds unearthed in Israel
Archaeologists say they've uncovered some stunning finds while digging at a construction site in Israel, including stone axes, a "cultic" temple and traces of a 10,000-year-old house.
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Baby dinosaur skeleton found intact in Alberta
An extremely well-preserved baby dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.
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Giant prehistoric toilet unearthed
A gigantic "communal latrine" created at the dawn of the dinosaurs has been unearthed in Argentina. Thousands of fossilised poos left by rhino-like megaherbivores were found clustered together, scientists say.
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Controversy over the use of Roman ingots to investigate dark matter and neutrinos
Scientists from the CDMS dark matter detection project in Minnesota (USA) and from the CUORE neutrino observatory at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy have begun to use them, but archaeologists have raised alarm about the destruction and trading of cultural heritage that lies behind this. The journal ‘Science’ has expressed this dilemma formulated by two Spanish researchers in the United Kingdom.
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Baby Dino Fossil: So Intact It's Lifelike
An extremely well preserved fossil of a baby dinosaur appears to hop out of the rock in which it was fossilized.
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Discovery of Oldest DNA Scrambles Human Origins Picture
Scientists reveal the surprising genetic identity of early human remains from roughly 400,000 years ago in Spain.
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The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave
Our picture of man’s early home has been skewed by modern preconceptions. It was the 18th-century scientist Carolus Linnaeus that laid the foundations for modern biological taxonomy. It was also Linnaeus who argued for the existence of Homo troglodytes, a primitive people said to inhabit the caves of an Indonesian archipelago.
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11 Colorful Phrases From Ancient Roman Graffiti
When the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were suddenly consumed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., many of their buildings were so intimately preserved that modern archaeologists can even read the graffiti scribbled onto their ancient walls. See if any of these remind you of a twenty-first century bathroom.
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1.34-Million-Year-Old Hominin Found in Tanzania
A partial skeleton of Paranthropus boisei represents one of the most recent occurrences of the hominin before its extinction in East Africa.
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Yes, Neanderthals did bury their dead
Over a century ago, archaeologists discovered what appeared to be a Neanderthal burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in southwestern France. They've been arguing about its true nature ever since. But after a 13-year study, it now appears that Neanderthals did in fact bury their dead.
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Most complete Neanderthal genome shows inbreeding
The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome suggests they inbred with their family members while occasionally interbreeding with modern humans, a new study has found. The study, that used DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that...
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Toe Fossil Provides Complete Neanderthal Genome
Scientists say the accuracy of the new genome is of similar quality to sequencing the DNA of a living person.
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Modern science to unlock the secrets of couples holding each other in loving embrace for 3,500 years
Extraordinary Bronze Age graves unearthed in Siberia: but could there be a macabre explanation?
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Thousand-Year-Old Vineyards Found in Spain
Traces of ancient vineyards that date back 1,000 years were discovered in the terraced fields of a medieval village in Spain.
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'Neanderthal' Remains Actually Medieval Human
Bones found in the 1980s in an Italian cave and identified as Neanderthal actually belonged to a human, or humans, from the Middle Ages, new research finds. The study highlights the need to reassess old anthropological discoveries.
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Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time
X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe.
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Ancient 'fig wasp' lived tens of millions of years before figs
A 115-million-year-old fossilized wasp from northeast Brazil presents a baffling puzzle to researchers. The wasp's ovipositor, the organ through which it lays its eggs, looks a lot like those of present-day wasps that lay their eggs in figs. The problem, researchers say, is that figs arose about 65 million years after this wasp was alive
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Mystery of Alexander the Great's death solved? Ruler was 'killed by toxic wine' claim scientists
Alexander the Great may have been killed by toxic wine made from a poisonous but harmless-looking plant, scientists have claimed.
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