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The new giant sea scorpion, the first to be discovered in 80 years and the first in Asia, was the apex predator of its time.…

The 'Spirit Mirror' once used in the 16th Century by John Dee, a scientific adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I has Aztec…

Earliest evidence of humans using clothes were found in a cave in Morocco. Though skins and furs are unlikely to survive in…

An ancient tomb about 5,500 years ago has two polished stone balls. This tomb on the island of Sanday, in the Orkney Islands…

99 million years ago the spiders were guarding their egg sacs and possibly caring for already hatched spiderlings when they were…

Researchers led by the University of York found that the bones of victims of the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius in the nearby town of…

Archaeologists in northern China have discovered two ancient skeletons wrapped in an embrace. The remains likely belonged to a…

In 2017 mammoth tusk collector Boris Berezhnev in Siberia was on his hunt for mammoth tusks when he found a lion cub. It was…

A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has revealed that the ancient Babylonians understood the Pythagorean theorem. This was more than…

A 4,000-year-old cemetery near the Hungarian city of Szigetszentmiklós revealed hundreds of clay pots buried half a kilometre…