1,300-Year-Old Wooden Ski Pair Discovered in Norwegian Ice The long-lost ski of a pair used more than 1,300 years ago has been discovered on a Norwegian mountaintop. The first ski was uncovered in 2014 and seven years later, the Digervarden…
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Unveiling the Azores’ First Settlers: Evidence of Human Inhabitance 700 Years Earlier A group of international academics discovered evidence that people inhabited islands in the Azores archipelago 700 years earlier than previously thought. The group explains their research of sediment cores taken…
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Scientists Unveil ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ 16-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Water Bear in Amber Scientists have discovered a new species of tardigrade almost perfectly preserved in 16-million-year-old amber. Also known as water bears, the creatures are a group of microscopic invertebrates that are best known…
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5,000-Year-Old Yamnaya Burial Mounds Unearthed in Serbia Researchers, including Polish archaeologists, discovered tall men’s bones covered with red dye in two burial mounds in Vojvodina (northern Serbia). These bones probably belonged to people who had come there almost five thousand…
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350-Year-Old African Remains Found in Portugal’s Stone Age Site A team of researchers has found an African man buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira, Portugal. The man lived just 350 years ago. Researchers have found an African man…
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Dinosaur Dance Floor in China: Largest Late Cretaceous Footprint Site Discovered In China, researchers have found many dinosaur footprints in an area of 1,600 square meters described in the literature as a “dinosaur dance floor.” So far, 8 kinds of…
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Lost Maya City Discovered in Volcano Crater: Lake Atitlán’s Hidden Archaeological Marvel A lost Mayan city that collapsed inside a volcano crater has been explored by a team of archaeologists. In the Late Preclassic period—400 BC to AD 250—there was…
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Stonehenge’s Prehistoric Landscape: Deer, Elk, and Open Woodland, New Study Reveals New research suggests that red deer, elk, and wild boar would have roamed the open woodland and meadow-like clearings near Stonehenge 4,000 years before the iconic standing stones were…
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Defiant Graffiti Found in Cuban Missile Crisis Bunker: A Cold War Discovery Sixty years ago during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a defiant individual — likely a Cuban soldier — wrote a message in a system of bunkers and trenches on…
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2,600-Year-Old Brain Discovered in England: The Iron Age Mystery of Perfect Preservation In England, a 2,600-year-old human skull was discovered, which was less surprising than what it was: the brain. The discovery of the yellowish, crinkly, shrunk brain led to…
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