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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs: What the first hours of Earth’s ultimate catastrophe looked like

Scientists describe a prolonged “global winter period” that lasted more than a decade

9-million-year-old shark fossil found intact, has sword-like teeth and is an ancestor of the great white

It is striking that remains of sardines were found in its stomach area. The fossil was discovered about 235 kilometers south of Lima, in the Pisco Basin

In Megalopolis, Arcadia, the world’s oldest known wooden tools – see photos

“This area was very important for human evolution throughout Europe,” explains the head of the research, paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati

Rare skull of an extinct, massive “thunder bird” discovered in Australia

The last of the mihirungs went extinct around 45,000 years ago

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