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Frozen history: Rare Antarctic dinosaur fossil rediscovered in office drawer

6+ hour, 3+ min ago  (258+ words) Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven't yet identified the species it belongs to....

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Master hunters: Neanderthals were able to hunt elephants; proof is out

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (321+ words) DT Next When a 125, 000-year-old elephant skeleton, pierced by a wooden spear, was discovered in a German lake bed in 1948, it was assumed Neanderthals were not sophisticated enough to hunt such massive megafauna Skeptics argued the spear found at the…...

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Scientists say world's oldest octopus fossil isn't an octopus after all

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (522+ words) LONDON: A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world's oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it's not an octopus at all. Newly published research concludes that fossilized remains listed by Guinness World Records as the…...

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