After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
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Mystery of the Ages: Huge Dinosaur Skull Discovered, Leading Scientists to Identify a Never-Seen Species
In the heart of Yunnan province, China, paleontologists have unveiled an incredible chapter in Earth's prehistoric history. A massive dinosaur skull unearthed in the Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark ...
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The mystery of an ancient skull takes a new turn after DNA analysis
The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra ... who briefly challenged her place on the Ptolemaic dynasty’s throne and lived much of her short life in exile before being assassinated ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
Relics represent that hope for everlasting life. Later this year, the skull formerly known as Aquinas’ will wend its way back to its permanent place of rest, buried under the altar of the Dominican ...
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Scientists discover skull of oldest known modern bird
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
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Forensic investigators focus on five parts of a skull. AI has turned that on its head
The tool can estimate the biological sex of a skull with 97 per cent accuracy, outperforming the 82 per cent accuracy of human assessors, and it works five times faster. AI took a different route ...
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Enormous Dinosaur Skull Uncovers a Previously Unknown Species
A huge dinosaur skull found in southern China appears to belong to an entirely new species, according to a group of paleontologists that studied the specimen. Paleontologists found the fossilized ...
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The night that Robert Burns' skull - with hair still attached - was taken from his Scottish crypt
In the dead of night, the skull of Robert Burns was removed from the crypt where he lay. It was his second final resting place - and the poet was to be disturbed once more. A group of men intent ...
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Near century-old mystery of skull thought to be Cleopatra’s murdered sister solved
A nearly century-old mystery surrounding a skull thought to belong to Cleopatra’s murdered sister was solved thanks to modern DNA analysis. Archaeologists exploring a Turkish tomb in 1929 made ...
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Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
Together, these features place Vegavis in the group that includes all modern birds, and the fossil skull represents “the earliest member of this entire radiation that we see around us today ...
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Fossil discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: Researchers identify unique bird skull
The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA. The Geiseltal Saxony-Anhalt is located south-west of Halle and was a lignite mining area until 1993. Numerous ...
The mystery of an ancient skull takes a new turn after DNA analysis
Scientists thought a tomb with similarities to buildings from Ptolemaic Egypt had been erected in memory of Cleopatra’s half sister, Arsinoë IV.