The rats in the New York’s subways may be scary but they would have been no match for their distant…
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National Guard airlifts dino fossils out of wilderness
This was something that had never been seen before — the full skeletal remains of a baby Pentaceratops, a plant-eating…
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Raiders of the Lost Journal? Package mailed to Indiana Jones
A package addressed to “Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr.” — aka Indiana Jones — first stumped its recipient, the University…
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History mystery: Creepy crawly rock art mystifies archaeologists
Archaeologists have discovered a panel containing the only known example of spider rock art in Egypt and, it appears, the…
Read MoreNo ‘Jurassic Park’: Dinosaurs off the de-extinction menu, scientists say
Dinosaurs won’t be coming soon to a park near you — although bringing them back to life might be possible.…
Read MoreWright or wrong? Smithsonian enters ‘first in flight’ fight
Is his plane claim full of hot air? Orville and Wilbur Wright were actually second in flight, and the Wright…
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Ancient dunes preserve signs of dinosaur-shaking quakes
Long ago, when the Earth had only one continent and one ocean, an earthquake rippled through western North America’s great…
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Researchers unearth new clues about ancient ‘computer’
Researchers have unearthed new clues to an ancient Greek astronomical puzzle that has fascinated archaeologists for over a century. The…
Read MoreRemains of ‘end of the world’ epidemic found in ancient Egypt
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was…
Read MoreArchaeologists say they’ve located the possible site of trial of Jesus
Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they may have uncovered the remains of Herod the Great’s palace, the site where the trial…
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