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Paleontologists say they have constructed from fossilized bones a prehistoric species of penguins that stood at least 4 feet 2 inches tall. The giant penguins lived in New Zealand about 25 million years ago.
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If you drive around southern Britain, out of Knebworth in North Hertfordshire towards Stevenage, you will encounter a mysterious collection of small hills or barrows.
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Blood from pre-historic woolly mammoths is now helping scientists advance modern medical procedures. New artificial blood for humans will be based on the reduction of each patient's body temperature.
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Archaeologists have discovered Britain's oldest house at a Stone Age site in North Yorkshire, pre-dating the previously oldest known dwelling by 500 years.
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It's a secret. There is such a thing as Australian parochialism in paleontology, in naming dinosaurs, like everything else. Clancy, Banjo and Matilda are named after Banjo Patterson’s poem Clancy of the Overflow, and Waltzing Matilda.
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Cave paintings have been around for at least 30,000 years and it has always been assumed that they were done by men. However, a new analysis shows that many handprints were in fact those of women.
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Scientists have recovered fossils of a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas and reticulated pythons seem a bit cuter and cuddlier.
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The first comprehensive reconstruction of an extreme warm period shows the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.
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According to the latest research, men fighting over women is nothing new, evidence has been shown for the first time to support the theory that fighting over women could have been far more harsh in prehistoric times than now.
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A stone pretending to be as one with a rockery along an English beach has turned out to be the fossilized head of a prehistoric fish. Read on for the intriguing details, no matter how you may feel about old things.
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 Scientists say they've discovered a new species of prehistoric bird with a Saskatchewan connection.
A newly-discovered species of prehistoric crocodile is named after the writer Rudyard Kipling.
Russian scientists grow ancient flower from 30,000-year-old burrow.
Vast trails of seven-million-year-old fossilised footprints reveal the "social structure" of prehistoric elephants, say scientists.
Scientists discover the remains of four prehistoric bears which they believe date back to the ice age in an underwater cave in Mexico
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