Homo juluensis May Be Part of a New Group of Ancient Humans todayheadline
For decades, archaeologists have been digging up enigmatic hominin fossils across East and Southeast Asia. They clearly didn’t belong to ...
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This Reptile Sported Strange, Feather-Shaped Structures Around 247 Million Years Ago todayheadline
Feathers are for the dinosaurs, and for their modern descendants, the birds. But feathers aren’t the only adornments that ancient ...
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for hungry giant caimans todayheadline
Artist’s impression of an encounter between an ancient caiman and a terror birdJulian Bayona Becerra About 13 million years ago ...
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The First Arachnids May Have Emerged From the Ocean 500 Million Years Ago todayheadline
Today’s spiders spend most of their time on land, scuttling through fields, forests, deserts, and just about every other terrestrial ...
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1,600-Year-Old Tomb of Maya King Wearing a Jade Death Mask Discovered in Belize todayheadline
After four decades, researchers have discovered the tomb of a Maya king in Belize. The king, known as Te K’ab ...
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Protein Found in 20-Million-Year-Old Rhino Tooth is Oldest Ever Sequenced todayheadline
A team of scientists has successfully recovered a protein sequence from a 20-million-year-old rhino tooth, providing new insights into the ...
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The Bizarre 300-Million-Year-Old Tully Monster — Why the Fossil Still Confuses Experts todayheadline
Key Takeaways on the Tully MonsterThe Tully monster lived before the dinosaurs 300 million years ago and had a fish-like ...
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Did Neanderthals Bury Their Dead with Flowers? Shanidar Cave Findings Put Questions to Rest todayheadline
In the 1950s, an American anthropologist, Ralph Solecki, discovered the remains of 10 Neanderthals in a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. Solecki ...
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Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact todayheadline
A yellow-spotted tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum)Dante Fenolio/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today ...
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The Smallest Dinosaur Ever Was Just 11 Inches Long, and Had Beautiful Tail Feathers todayheadline
Key Takeaways on the Smallest Dinosaur: At around 30 cm (11 in) in length, a species called Epidexipteryx likely takes ...
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