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Beautifully Complete 150-Million-Year-Old Turtle Fossil Discovered In Germany An incredibly well-preserved fossil of an ancient Jurassic sea turtle has been uncovered in Germany, the first to have a complete skull, shell, and all four limbs. The marine turtle had a massive head and would have swum through the shallows of a tropical sea that once …
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Ancient mural painting in the Nubian pyramids depicting a ‘Giant’ carrying two elephants!! If you drive north from Khartoum along a narrow desert road toward the ancient city of Meroë, a breathtaking view emerges from beyond the mirage: dozens of steep pyramids piercing the horizon. No matter how many times you may visit, there is …
Incredible Fossil Fish From The Jurassic Unearthed In Farmer’s Field A remarkably well-preserved prehistoric fish has been unearthed in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire, UK. Thought to be around 183 million years old, the 3D fish complete with eyeball was found alongside a host of marine animals which had been concealed beneath a field grazed …
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Dogs have been Man’s Best Friend for at Least 40,000 Years The bond between humans and dogs can feel very strong, deep, and profound. It may also be much older than we once thought. A group of researchers discovered an ancient wolf bone and say its DNA suggests dogs diverged from wolves 27,000 to 40,000 years ago — …
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7.5 Million Annual Elephant Skulls Fossil Were Found in Turkey “Choerolophodon Pentelic” A complete skull fossil from 7.5 million years ago was discovered on the bank of the Yamula Dam in the central Kayseri Province of Turkey. This is a major discovery. The skull belongs to Choerolophodon Pentelic, known as the ancestor of elephants. The …
30,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Found Almost Perfectly Preserved in Canadian Gold Fields A near-perfectly mummified, 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth has been unearthed from Canadian permafrost by a miner in the Klondike region’s gold fields. The stunningly preserved baby, which measured just 4.5 feet (1.4 meters) long and has much of its hair and skin intact, was …
Unique Archaeological Discovery in Croatia: A Roman Chariot with Horses! The fossilized remains of a buried Roman chariot with two horses in a burial ritual have been discovered by Archeologists in Croatia. A large burial chamber for an ‘extremely wealthy family’ was found in which the carriage with what appears to be two horses had …
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Perfectly-preserved ‘bog beetles’ nearly as old as Egypt’s pyramids Two thumb-size beetles found preserved in an English bog may look as though they died as recently as yesterday, but in reality they’re nearly as ancient as Egypt’s pyramids, new research finds. The two oak capricorn beetles (that belonged to the genus Cerambyx) date back 3,785 …
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24,000-Year-Old Animal Found Alive After Being Preserved in Siberian Permafrost During the Upper Paleolithic era, a multicellular organism was frozen almost the time in history when humans first set foot into North America. About 24,000 years later, it has been found alive after sleeping for millennia. This turned out to be a very huge discovery …
Ancient Armadillo The Size Of A Car Discovered By Farmer In Argentina An extraordinary discovery has been made by a farmer in Argentina who was fortunate enough to stumble across the fossil remains of four enormous Glyptodon fossils in the Vallimanca stream channel while transporting cattle. A post from the Institute of Archaeological and Palaeontological …
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