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Strange pits on 2 million-year-old teeth may reveal which human relatives are closely related to each other

A mysterious type of pitting on the dental enamel of Paranthropus, a genus of extinct human relatives, has baffled experts…

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2.2 million-year-old teeth reveal secrets of human relatives found in a South African cave

Small pieces of tooth enamel from deep in a South African cave have begun to reveal secrets held for 2…

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Ancient sea monster was pregnant with twins when she died, 131 million-year-old fossil reveals

A CT scan of an ancient marine reptile that was entombed while pregnant has revealed a huge surprise — there…

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1.4 million-year-old skull found in Spain is ‘earliest human face of Western Europe’

Fragments of a skull found in Spain reveal that human ancestors arrived in Western Europe far earlier than previously thought,…

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1.5 million-year-old bone tools crafted by human ancestors in Tanzania are oldest of their kind

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much…

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125 million-year-old fossil of giant venomous scorpion that lived alongside dinosaurs discovered in China

A known treasure trove of Early Cretaceous fossils has turned up a never-before-seen species of scorpion that lived around 125…

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5 million-year-old tooth from Tennessee belongs to house cat-size flying squirrel

Giant flying squirrels that were as big as house cats glided across North America around 5 million years ago, researchers…

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Lake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica’s ice

QUICK FACTS Name: Lake Vostok Location: East Antarctica Coordinates: -77.45268382042562, 106.23142584023033 Why it’s incredible: The lake is one of the…

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