Ancient Discoveries
SA dinosaur embryos the oldest in the worldTwo dinosaur embryos discovered in the Free State in the 1970s have been identified as the world's oldest "rotten eggs". |
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Stone Age Cave Art, Artifacts Found in BorneoFrench and Indonesian archeologists and cavers have discovered evidence of Stone Age human settlements in caves on the island of Borneo. |
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40,000-year-old footprints rewrite historyBritish scientists today claimed they have unearthed 40,000 year-old human footprints in central Mexico which shatter previous theories on how humans first colonised the Americas. |
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Europe’s oldest civilisation unearthedEurope's oldest civilisation has been discovered by archaelogists across the continent, The Independent newspaper has said. |
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Ancient Bear DNA Mapped—A 1st for Extinct SpeciesScientists have sequenced the DNA of two cave bears that roamed the Austrian Alps some 40,000 years ago. It marks the first time researchers have been able to completely sequence the DNA of a species that has long been extinct. |
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Ice Age armadillo fossil foundBuilders have found the fossil of a giant armadillo - which lived up to 2 million years ago and would have been the size of a Volkswagen Beetle - in southern Peru, an archaeologists said today. |
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Plan to clone extinct tiger revivedAustralian researchers are reviving a project to bring an extinct animal known as the Tasmanian tiger back from the dead through cloning. |
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London displays tree from dinosaur eraA tree from the time of the dinosaurs, recently rediscovered in Australia, went on display on Tuesday at London`s Kew Gardens. |
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DNA offers clues on early human migrationA team of geneticists says DNA study of ancient people in Malaysia has yielded clues on how early humans migrated from Africa. |
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‘Most beautiful’ mummy unveiledA superbly preserved, 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and brightly coloured images of gods and goddesses was unveiled yesterday at Egypt's Saqqara pyramids complex south of Cairo. |
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‘Dragon-like’ dinosaurs discovered in USA new "dragon-like" dinosaur that used its flat head to slam into rivals has been discovered in the United States, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis announced. |
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Oceanographers collect 1.5 million year record of climate change in AfricaFour University of Rhode Island oceanographers and colleagues from four other universities recently probed the ancient sediments beneath Lake Malawi in East Africa and recovered sediment samples that provide up to 1.5 million years of information about how climate in Africa has changed � the longest continuous record of such data ever collected from that continent. |
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Fig Island has remarkable examples of shell ringsFig Island looks like any of the thousands of tidal hummocks along the South Carolina coast. |
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Fields of sunken wreckage in ocean near HawaiiFrom junked trucks to World War II submarines, vast fields of far-flung wreckage exist beneath the blue-green ocean off Hawaii. |
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- Tesla Unveils Solar Powered Charging Stations
- Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel Austria
- Robots join the fight against cancer
- Puppet experiment suggests humans are born to be fair
- Bill Nye the Science Guy asks parents not to raise creationist kids
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