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BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

Nov 19, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 2

A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. ...

Extinct moa rewrites New Zealand's history

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of New Zealand's many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic, ...

New insights into the life of the Maya

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Nov 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (15) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...

Study Pits Man v Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million Years Old Jigsaw

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Nov 16, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a 425 million-year old jigsaw puzzle has discovered that there is no substitute for wisdom born out of experience.

Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real

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12 hours ago | 1.7 / 5 (15) | 16

(AP) -- A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara ...

'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils

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Nov 19, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 0

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...

Valley in Jordan inhabited and irrigated for 13,000 years

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

You can make major discoveries by walking across a field and picking up every loose item you find. Dutch researcher Eva Kaptijn succeeded in discovering - based on 100,000 finds - that the Zerqa Valley in Jordan had been ...

Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, ...