The incredible Shigir Idol, a wooden wonder of the prehistoric world, dates back to approximately 11,600 years in 2018. Now, a new study has pushed that date back an additional 900 years. …
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From what little we know about them, they seem so different. Mysterious creatures that lived in the ocean 500 million years ago: things without heads, without limbs, seemingly alien to us in …
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It was found in 2015, an isolated clue to a macabre mystery that was set in motion thousands of years ago. This ancient puzzle consisted of a single piece: a solitary human …
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The rock of Mars is a rare and precious resource here on Earth. So far the only samples we have are chunks of meteorite, detached from the red planet and traveling through …
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In ancient times, Europe was a very different place – at one time, Britain was still located in the European continent. Only after millennia, when that relationship ended for a long time, …
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The sea floor of the South Pacific Ocean has traces of ancient dust, which probably changed the very climate of the Earth, and new research suggests that it has now come all …
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In its 4.6 billion-year history, Mars has had its fair share of punches from hurling asteroids and hitting comets. Today, the surface of the red planet is no less than 43,000 impact …
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Scientists say the remains of a huge, ancient lake have been discovered beneath Greenland, buried deep under a sheet of ice in the northwest of the country. The giant ‘fossil lake bed’ …
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Geologists believe that about 60 million years ago, the Farallon and Kula tectonic plates off the coast of North America covered a vast area of the Earth’s surface in the Pacific Ocean. …
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A 100 million-year-old chunk of amber has revealed the oldest specimen of animal sperm, and each individual cell is growing longer. Even more impressive, this giant sperm – many times larger than …
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