Category: Archaeologists
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Roman Swords in ‘Mint Condition’ Unearthed After 1,900 Years in a Dead Sea Cave, Shocking Archaeological Find
Four remarkably preserved Roman swords “in almost mint condition” — with their wooden and leather hilts and steel blades still intact after 1,900 years — have been discovered inside a remote cave near the Dead Sea. The trove of ancient artifacts – four swords and the head of a javelin known as a “pilum” —…
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An apex predator from 230 million years ago had an incredibly weak bite—raising eerie questions about how it truly hunted its prey.
An apex predator that once roamed the Earth around 230 million years ago had a surprisingly weak bite for its size, researchers have found. A team of paleontologists re-created the original skull anatomy of a reptile from the Late Triassic period, known as Saurosuchus, for a study published in the journal The Anatomical Record. Saurosuchus…
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Unearthed from ancient stone, the superb skull of Andrewsarchus hints at a colossal beast that once ruled with silent, forgotten power.
In the spring of 1923, a group of Museum researchers who had recently embarked on the second year of the Central Asiatic Expeditions made camp at Irdin Manha—the Valley of the Jewels—in Inner Mongolia. Named for the brilliantly polished pebbles of agate, chalcedony, jasper, quartz, and other minerals found there, Irdin Manha immediately proved a rich trove of…
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Shrouded in ancient stone, the oldest plesiosaur fossil whispers secrets from the dinosaur era, its eerie silence echoing through time’s abyss.
The long-necked marine reptiles known as plesiosaurs are one of the icons of the dinosaur age. But all the fossil skeletons found so far come from the Jurassic period. Now we’ve found a nearly complete fossil from the earlier Triassic period. It is the oldest plesiosaur ever found. The fossil shows that, as predicted, plesiosaurs…
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Hieroglyphs from 5,000 Years Ago: Computers and Bicycles in Ancient Mexico?
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Buried beneath layers of forgotten earth, a college student unearthed a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull, awakening secrets lost to ancient time.
As a child, Harrison Duran would visit the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, captivated by the fossils preserved in asphalt. Now 23, Duran is responsible for his own fossil discovery: the 65-million-year-old partial skull of a triceratops. In June, the University of California, Merced student participated in a paleontology dig with Michael Kjelland,…
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Deep within the ancient jawbone of a T-Rex, haunting holes remain, silent witnesses to a mysterious force that once scarred the mighty beast. Would you like a version that’s even darker or more suspenseful?
The fossil of Sue the T-Rex is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. Sue, the biggest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex ever unearthed, no doubt was a fearsome beast when this predator prowled what is now South Dakota about 67 million years ago at the twilight of the age of dinosaurs. But even…
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Buried for 201 million years, the Welsh cousin of T-Rex emerged from Penarth’s shores, cloaked in ancient mystery and forgotten power.
A dinosaur has been discovered on a beach near Penarth As far as discoveries on the beach go, this will take some beating – the first carnivorous dinosaur ever found in Wales. Two brothers found the fossilised skeleton of the dinosaur, thought to be around 201 million years old. This new Welsh dinosaur was a…
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Deep within the shadows of the KORITE Mine, a mosasaur’s ancient remains whispered secrets from a forgotten ocean world.
DRUMHELLER — Think Flipper the dolphin, but really, really big and with a nasty set of teeth. Think Flipper the dolphin, but really, really big and with a nasty set of teeth. That’s sort of what the prehistoric marine reptile which used to swim across Alberta’s ancient seas looked like, according to a 75-million-year-old fossil…
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Scientists uncover the ‘monkeydactyl,’ a mysterious flying dinosaur with opposable thumbs, baffling experts worldwide.
Paleontologists have discovered the first-known fossil of a flying dinosaur with opposable thumbs. Nicknamed “Monkeydactyl”, the 160-million-year-old pterosaur likely used its dexterity to climb trees and hunt for insects and other prey. A team of international researchers unearthed the Jurassic remains in Liaoning, northeastern China, a hotbed for fossil discovery. The monkeydactyl is the earliest…