 Anthropologists discover long-lost primate in Indonesia November 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist has discovered a group of primates not seen alive in 85 years. The pygmy tarsiers, furry Furby/gremlin-looking* creatures about the size ... | |
 Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from ... | |
 World's earliest nuclear family found November 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic ... | |
 Marine plankton found in amber November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine microorganisms have been found in amber dating from the middle of the Cretaceous period. The fossils were collected in Charente, in France. This completely unexpected discovery will ... | |
 Prehistoric pelvis offers clues to human development November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. "This is the most complete female Homo erectus ... | |
Dinosaur whodunit: Solving a 77-million-year-old mystery November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to ... | |
 Rare publishing achievement for student provides new insights into the fossil record of whales 18 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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It is extremely unusual for a student to have their work accepted for publication in a prestigious scientific journal. However, Felix Marx, a fourth year student in the Department of Earth Sciences at the ... | |
New excavations strengthen identification of Herod's grave at Herodium 20 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of the mausoleum of King Herod at Herodium (Herodion in Greek) have provided Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeological researchers with further assurances that this was ... | |
 Archeologists say they found witch doctor skeleton November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Archeologists believe a 12,000-year-old skeleton found in a grave containing 50 tortoise shells, a leopard pelvis, a cow tail and part of an eagle wing is the remains of a witch doctor. | |
 Ancient Celtic coin cache found in Netherlands November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A hobbyist with a metal detector struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht. | |
 Archaeologists unearth 8th century church in Syria November 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Archaeologists in central Syria have unearthed the remnants of an 8th century church, an antiquities official said Thursday. A Syrian-Polish archaeological team recently discovered the church in the ... | |
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