New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early migration route followed the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago.
The study was conducted by a team of anthropologists, geologists and botanists […]
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New geological evidence indicates the Grand Canyon may be so old that dinosaurs once lumbered along its rim, according to a study by researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the California Institute of Technology.
The team used a technique known as radiometric dating to show the Grand Canyon may have formed more than […]
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Professor Eske Willerslev was surprised by the results of the DNA tests conducted by himself and his colleagues on samples of what turned out to be fossilised human faeces found in deep caves in the Oregon desert. The oldest of the droppings have been carbon-dated to be approximately 14,340 years old.
Willerslev’s faeces samples clearly contain […]
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The fossil of a 15 metre (50ft) long sea monster found in Arctic Norway is the biggest of its kind known to science. It was twice as big as a killer whale.
The monster had 60 dagger-like teeth in a mouth large enough to bite a small car, researchers say. The lower jaw was about 3 […]
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