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How 2 Teens Accidentally Solved Charles Darwin's Most Vexing Problem
In 1956, a teenage girl by the name of Tina Negus was summering in the United Kingdom's Charnwood Forest with her family, when she noticed a curious imprint on an overhanging rock face.
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Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
A team of paleontologists has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. In their study, reported in Journal of Human Evolution, the group analyzed the fossilized jawbone, partial skull and some leg bones of a hominin dated to 300,000 years ago.
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Ancient Trilobites Had Crystal Eyes, And They're Still a Mystery
Nature has tried some pretty wild approaches to life's problems over the eons, and that's true for vision.
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70-Year-Old Mystery Over Bizarre 'Tully Monster' May Finally Have Been Solved
The most thorough study yet of a mysterious creature that lived 300 million years ago has ruled that it had no bones after all.
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A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat
The realization that people have long eaten putrid foods has archaeologists rethinking what Neandertals and other ancient hominids ate.
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This Strange Ancient 'Fossil' May Not Have Been Left by Any Living Thing
An ancient three-dimensional star-shaped 'thing' still baffles scientists more than a century after its discovery.
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Chelyabinsk meteor: Ten years on from 'wake-up call', how safe are we from a potentially catastrophic strike?
A decade on from the Chelyabinsk meteor, and our planet has come a long way in detecting the threat of interstellar objects potentially hurtling into the atmosphere. But has the risk been completely eliminated - and exactly how prepared are we for another dramatic impact?
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Dinosaur Hatchery With 92 Nests And Over 250 Eggs Uncovered In India
The recent findings suggest the titanosaur — one of the largest dinosaurs in the world — may have close ties with modern-day crocodiles and birds.
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Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face
Washed out to sea, a giant beast and its armored skin were left in pristine condition.
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1.2-Million-Year-Old Obsidian Axe Factory Found In Ethiopia
An unknown species of human apparently mastered obsidian, something it had been thought only occurred in the Stone Age.
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The Dinosaurs Didn't Go Extinct in a Day (They Didn't Go Extinct At All...)
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The polar dinosaurs revealing ancient secrets
There's mounting evidence that some dinosaurs lived among snow and ice. How did they do it?
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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also triggered global tsunami
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal life (most famously the dinosaurs), also triggered a worldwide tsunami with mile-high wa
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Peace accord in Colombia leads to discovery of new dinosaur species
Researchers dubbed it Perijasaurus lapaz after the mountainous region and the Spanish word for “peace.”
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How mammals won the dinosaurs' world
Sixty-six million years ago, our ancestors lived through the most violent event in the Earth's history. How did small, insignificant mammals survive a doomsday asteroid?
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P.E.I. school teacher stumbles upon fossil that may be 300 million years old
A P.E.I. school teacher has made the discovery of a lifetime after stumbling upon a fossil that could be 300 million years old. Lisa Cormier was taking a stroll in Cape Egmont Monday afternoon when she spotted something unusual partially buried on the shore.
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Portugal man accidentally uncovers a 25-metre-long dinosaur skeleton in his own backyard
A 25-metre fossilised dinosaur skeleton was the last thing a Portugal man expected to uncover in his own backyard in 2017, but now researchers believe he may have stumbled upon the largest of its kind in Europe.
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Scientists discover a 5-mile wide undersea crater created as the dinosaurs disappeared | CNN
A newly discovered crater off the coast of West Africa was likely caused by an asteroid more than 400 meters wide that hit the Earth around the same time as the space rock that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction.
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Discovery of small armoured dinosaur in Argentina is first of its kind
Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown small armoured dinosaur in southern Argentina, a creature that probably walked upright on its back legs roaming a then-steamy landscape about 100m years ago.
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