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A tiny creature that lived around half a billion years ago has been found almost perfectly preserved, with one scientist exclaiming his “jaw just dropped” while examining the exceptionally rare fossil.Remains of the larva, about the size of a poppy seed, were unearthed in China with its internal organs almost intact.The larva, named Youti yuanshi, dates back to 520 million years ago, around a time that a large diversity of life began to emerge on Earth, including many major animal groups alive today.The team said this ancient creature “provides key clues” on how modern arthropods – a group of animals...

A 520 million-year-old perfectly preserved creature is set to reveal secrets of evolution

Located at Fuente Nueva-3, this Early Pleistocene archaeological site hosts some of the oldest traces of human habitation in Western Europe. Researchers at the University of Malaga have revealed, in an unprecedented manner, that the Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Orce, often referred to as the ‘elephant graveyard’ due to the abundance of remains from the extinct elephant species Mammuthus meridionalis, actually concealed a natural trap in the form of quicksand.

1.4 Million-Year-Old Human Activity Unearthed at Orce’s Quicksand Trap

Spain’s Orce region holds Europe’s oldest human remains, dating 1.3 million years ago, indicating migration through the Strait of Gibraltar. Researchers may have solved one of the most widely debated questions about human evolution and expansion: when, and by what route, did the first hominids arrive in Europe from Africa? Geological dating techniques at the Orce sites (Baza basin, Granada, Spain) have determined that human remains found in this region are the oldest in Europe, dating back 1.3 million years. This supports the hypothesis that humans entered Europe through the Strait of Gibraltar, instead of returning to the Mediterranean via the Asian route.

Oldest Human Fossils in Europe Discovered: 1.3 Million-Year-Old Remains Challenge Previous Migration Theories

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Desert regions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have been well studied by archaeologists as the home of early humans and as routes of migration along “green corridors”. The archaeology of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt has not received the same attention. The Namib Sand...

African archaeology has neglected Namibia’s deserts, but scientists now know when an ancient lake supported human life in the Namib Sand Sea

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The scientists named the dinosaur after Loki, as its Danish home and curving blade-like horns evoke the Norse god.

Reindeer of the Cretaceous: Bladelike horned dinosaur rewrites prehistoric playbook

Extraterrestrial secrets revealed new ALIENS UNCOVERED documentary. Aliens Uncovered: Buried Cities and Lost Tribes, from director Clive Christopher, is now available on digital. Hidden in the Grand Canyon, in the areas that are off limits to modern civilization, is a group of ancestors that have become lost over time. With...

Extraterrestrial Secrets Revealed in New ALIENS UNCOVERED Documentary

 Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered a strange well-preserved skeleton in the 2,200-year-old “Tomb of Cerberus”, likely belonging to an influential person who lived in the ancient city of Liternum.The “Tomb of Cerberus” was uncovered last year in the northwest Naples city of Giugliano near an ancient Roman necropolis.After initially probing the contents of the tomb using a micro camera, new excavations have revealed the skeleton of a person in an “excellent state of preservation” covered in a shroud.The skeleton was discovered along with grave goods such as ointment jars and a Roman tool used to scrape off dirt from...

Archaeologists perplexed by strange skeleton uncovered in Italy’s 2,200-year-old ‘Tomb of Cerberus’

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Herbie J Pilato

Hollywood child stardom has taken its toll on many actors through the decades. Lani O'Grady, for one, found fame in the 1970s on the TV family series, Eight is Enough. O'Grady followed in the footsteps of her brother, actor Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer and member of another popular TV family show: My Three Sons. Their mother, Mary B. Grady, was a talent agent who represented several child actors. But Lani, who would also eventually become an agent, died in 2001 just one week before what would have been her 47th birthday.

TV's 'Eight is Enough' Star Lani O'Grady Found Fame Early in Life but Died a Tragic Death

An Iron Age-era clay statuette has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Bolsena in Italy. The figurine, depicting an unfinished female figure, was unearthed during ongoing underwater archaeological work at the Gran Carro di Bolsena site in Aiola, Italy. The statuette dates back to the 10th or 9th century BC, offering a unique glimpse into ancient craftsmanship.

Italy: 3,000-year-old clay figurine found at bottom of lake with human fingerprints

 Archaeologists have unearthed a mysterious underground structure with painted walls beneath a Mayan ball court in Mexico.They were using advanced aerial laser scanning techniques to see what was beneath a previously uncovered ancient ball court in Campeche, Mexico, and stumbled upon the mysterious structure. The exploration focussed on a nearly 140 square kilometre patch of land in the Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve.The structure, dated to the Early Classic period of the Mayan civilisation between 200 and 600 AD, could offer insights into life on the South American continent before the Spanish conquest, according to a statement from Mexico’s National...

Mysterious Mayan underground structure with painted walls uncovered in Mexico

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Jaw and arm bone fragments at an archeological site in Indonesia have revealed that humanity‘s so-called “Hobbit” ancestors were even smaller than initially thought. Knewz.com has learned that the first discovery of these humans was made when scientists dug out fairly recent remains dating back between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The latest find, located […]

Newly Discovered Hobbit Fossils From 700,000 Years Ago Reveal Stunning New Detail

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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Social media users claimed the fossilized bones were found in Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt’s "Valley of the Whales."

Fact Check: Real Photo of 37-Million-Year-Old Whale Skeleton Found in Egyptian Desert?

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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Olympic Games in Paris, American diver Alison Gibson faced an unfortunate incident that led to a score of 0.0. Competing to secure a place in the semi-finals, the 25-year-old Texas-born athlete experienced a collision with the diving board that significantly impacted her performance.

Heart-Stopping Moment: Alison Gibson’s Dive Ends in Disaster at the 2024 Olympics

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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An extremely rare discovery has just been made in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Tel el-Deir in Damietta. There, excavations have revealed dozens of burials that have been untouched for millennia; mudbrick chambers that still contained the precious treasures with which the dead had been interred more than 2,500 years ago.

Gold Treasure Trove Found in Untouched Graves of Ancient Egyptian Necropolis

Sam Westreich, PhD

It’s not humans. How a survivor of a super-extinction repopulated our planet. There are more than 8 billion humans alive at this moment on Earth (unless something has gone horribly wrong). But humans aren’t the only dominant mammals.

For Millions of Years, Earth Was Dominated by a Single Vertebrate Genus

Through a basement door in southeastern Turkey lies a sprawling underground city -- perhaps the country's largest -- which one historian believes dates back to the ninth century before Jesus Christ. But "pagans, Jews, Christians, Muslims, all these believers contributed to the underground city of Matiate," Yavuz said.

Ancient secrets unearthed in vast Turkish cave city

Markings on a stone pillar found at the 12,000-year-old archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey have been newly decoded by researchers, who believe they may document a tremendous comet strike that led to a major shift in human civilization. The site, a temple-like complex some seven thousand years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza, contains intricate carvings that archaeologists think may collectively form the world’s oldest calendar, as well as those that record the Taurid meteor stream that gave rise to a twenty-seven-day-long rain of comet fragments that plunged the Earth into a roughly 1,200-year-long ice age in 10850 BCE. The comet strike is believed to have wiped out many species of large animals, and to have spurred the lifestyle change from hunting and gathering to farming that led to the birth of civilization in the Fertile Crescent of West Asia.

PREHISTORIC CARVINGS IN SOUTHERN TURKEY THOUGHT TO RECORD DAWN OF CIVILIZATION

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Fossils remains suggest an early human species nicknamed “hobbits” had ancestors who were even shorter, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature. The extinct Homo floresiensis were named after the Indonesian island of Flores where they roamed, though scientists also refer to them as hobbits after the “Lord of the Rings” characters. Fossils that were discovered on the island 20 years ago and date back 60,000 to 100,000 years suggested the species was about 3½ feet tall.

Fossils suggest early human 'hobbits' had ancestors who were even smaller

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The Oldest Grapes in the Americas: Discovery of 60-Million-Year-Old Seeds Unveils Ancient Plant Secrets

Grape fossils in South America show evolution and resilience post-dinosaurs, aiding understanding of current biodiversity shifts. Researchers have discovered fossil grape seeds that range from 60...

The Oldest Grapes in the Americas: Discovery of 60-Million-Year-Old Seeds Unveils Ancient Plant Secrets

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