Archaeologists have found the body of a child from around 9,000 years ago buried with thousands of beads in what is now Jordan. Based on the shape of the child’s jaw, she was probably...
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This Ancient Weapon Was Made From an Object That Fell Out of The Sky : ScienceAlert
A Bronze Age arrowhead excavated in Switzerland in the 19th century turns out to be made from an unexpected material. The tiny artifact is made from iron retrieved from an object that fell from...
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Ancient Worm Resurrected After 46,000 Years of Death-Defying Limbo : ScienceAlert
An international effort to revive an ancient roundworm, frozen in Siberian permafrost for millennia, has unleashed a lifeform even older than scientists once thought. In 2018, several resurrected nematodes, of the genus Panagrolaimus, were...
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Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on Lost City of The Incas : ScienceAlert
Standing atop the mountains in the southern highlands of Peru is the 15th-century marvel of the Inca empire, Machu Picchu. Today, the citadel is a global tourist attraction and an icon of precolonial Latin...
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Ancient Underwater Volcano Off Canada Is Still Active, And Teeming With Life : ScienceAlert
A submerged volcano is exuding hot fluid deep below the sea off the Pacific coast of Canada, and thousands of eggs look like ravioli on its summit. The crew of the 2023 Northeast Pacific...
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Ancient Soil Found in a Freezer Reveals an Ice-Free Greenland, Hints at Future Risks : ScienceAlert
A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland vanished around 416,000 years ago during a period of moderate natural warming, driving global sea rise to levels that would spell catastrophe for coastal regions today, a study...
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It Turns Out An Ancient Creature Actually Preyed Upon Dinosaurs : ScienceAlert
The Cretaceous world seems to have been a perilous place to scratch out an existence, a land of eat-or-be-eaten. And we have evidence of one dinosaur that met such an ignominious end as a...
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We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time : ScienceAlert
The ancient Romans were master builders and engineers, perhaps most famously represented by the still-functional aqueducts. And those architectural marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic concrete, a spectacularly durable material that gave...
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Ancient ‘Outsider’ Human Species Pinpointed in Oldest Genetic Study Yet : ScienceAlert
Researchers have managed the incredible feat of predicting genetic relationships between some of the earliest hominins to live on planet Earth, using little more than some proteins scraped from 2 million year old fossilized...
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Scientists Discover Ancient Traces of The Oldest Glaciers Ever Found : ScienceAlert
Scientists think they’ve uncovered evidence of the oldest glaciers ever found, in ancient rocks speckled with oxygen isotopes lying beneath the world’s largest gold deposits in South Africa. The discovery could add new lines...
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