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The Largest Sea Turtle In The World Surface The Sea And It Looks Incredible!

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The Largest Sea Turtle In The World Surface The Sea And It Looks Incredible!

These reptilian relics are actually the only remaining representatives of a family of turtles which evolutionary roots come from more than 100 million years ago.

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Campsite dating back 12000 years unearthed by Route 8 Construction near Fredricton, NB

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Archaeologists have found evidence that proves First Nations people were in New Brunswick more than 10,000 years ago. For years archaeologists suspected the First Nations history might go way back because there had been small, individual finds, but Hurricane Earl helped reveal even more. But for the first time, a large campsite has been uncovered […]

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Could a Human Not in Our Species Still Exist?

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New fossil discoveries continue to push the known boundaries of human evolution An ancient species of human from China, thought to be long extinct, likely survived until at least the last Ice Age 14,000 years ago, new research finds. Since the timeframe of these so-called Red Deer Cave people, as well as Homo floresiensis (aka […]

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Vitrified wall at Ste-Suzanne (Mayenne) in Scotland: The hill fort – Top O Noth, Aberdeenshire mystery

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The hill fort ‘Tap O Noth’ lies on a hill top in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Along the fort is a vitrified wall, a wall heated to such an intensity, for a period of time, that it becomes like glass. Among artifacts found at the fort are a stone axe, dated to somewhere between 2,000 BC and […]

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French archaeology students find 560,000-year-old tooth

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French archaeology students find 560,000-year-old tooth

Two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in south-western France, a discovery praised by archaeologists as the oldest human body part ever discovered...

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