Archaeology

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What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists Science

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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What Is Ancient DNA and How Scientists Use It Science

What Is Ancient DNA and How Scientists Use It

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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How Archaeologists Decode Ancient Mass Graves Science

How Archaeologists Decode Ancient Mass Graves

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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What Did Paleolithic Humans Actually Eat? Health

What Did Paleolithic Humans Actually Eat?

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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How Bone Rings Reveal Dinosaur Age and Growth Science

How Bone Rings Reveal Dinosaur Age and Growth

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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Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History Science

Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History

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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'Hell Heron' Spinosaurus Rewrites Prehistoric Sahara Science

'Hell Heron' Spinosaurus Rewrites Prehistoric Sahara

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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