2,100-year-old gadget tracked Olympics July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(AP) -- An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found. | |
 Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. | |
 Art of deception: Crystal skulls in British, US museums were fakes July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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How about this for the next instalment of the Indy franchise: "Indiana Jones and the Dodgy Antiques Dealer"? | |
 New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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They're torn and faded and have the woven texture of a flattened Triscuit. At first glance, the ancient Egyptian texts look like scraps of garbage. And more than 2,000 years ago, that's exactly what they were—discarded ... | |
 Lost castle solves riddle of Buckton Moor July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A mysterious monument standing on a windswept Lancashire hilltop for nearly a thousand years has been identified as one of England’s most important castles – causing a sensation among archaeologists. | |
 Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles ... | |
 Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost ... | |
 Bulgarian archaeologists discover ancient chariot 8 hours ago | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Thursday. | |
Puerto Rican police make undersea discovery July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Police divers checking a report of human remains off a Puerto Rican beach may have made an archaeological discovery: bones and possible artifacts from a colonial-era ship, officials in the U.S. island territory said ... | |
Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday. | |
 Scientists aim camera at fossilized dino tracks July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Call them the paleo-paparazzi. Scientists trying to learn more about dinosaurs are snapping aerial photos of tracks left behind millions of years ago near southern Utah's Coral Pink Sand Dunes. | |
 Was it a bird or was it a plane? July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new study of extinct flying reptiles called kuehneosaurs, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain, Kuehneosuchus was a glider while Kuehneosaurus, with much shorter "wings," was a parachutist. | |
 Dino diversity had a long pedigree, says study July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The belief that dinosaurs underwent explosive species diversification just before they were wiped out is an illusion, for the beasts' main evolutionary shifts took place millions of years before, a study says. ... | |
 Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least ... | |
Construction workers unearth mammoth bones in Minsk July 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Workers building a business centre in Minsk came across the bones of two mammoths thought to be between 25,000 and 45,000 years old, an official from Belarus' Academy of Sciences told AFP on Friday. | |
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