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What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists
Alvarezsaurs were a bizarre group of tiny, bird-like dinosaurs with stubby arms and a single giant claw. A near-complete fossil from Patagonia is fina...
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Alvarezsaurs were a bizarre group of tiny, bird-like dinosaurs with stubby arms and a single giant claw. A near-complete fossil from Patagonia is fina...
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Ancient DNA extracted from bones, teeth, and even permafrost sediments is rewriting human prehistory, revealing lost species, and opening unexpected d...
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When archaeologists uncover a prehistoric mass grave, a battery of modern forensic techniques—from isotopic analysis to ancient DNA—can reconstruct wh...
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The modern paleo diet promises to replicate what our Stone Age ancestors ate — but archaeology tells a far more complex story. Early humans were flexi...
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Just like tree rings record years of growth, microscopic lines inside dinosaur bones hold the key to understanding how long these giants lived and how...
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Scientists have discovered Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Black Death — in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the Ural Mountains, th...
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Scientists have named Spinosaurus mirabilis — the first new Spinosaurus species in over a century — a blade-crested, fish-hunting 'hell heron' found 9...
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