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Fossil turtle pairs provide first direct evidence of prehistoric vertebrate mating. The moment of orgasm has sometimes been called the “little death”, but several pairs of prehistoric turtles may have died before they reached that moment. Palaeontologists have discovered fossilized turtles in flagrante delicto. 
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CT scans revealed how the coffin of the teenaged boy Minirdis was constructed.
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An 18-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria. According to the researchers, the material –– which dates back nearly 13,000 years –– was formed at temperatures of 1,700 to 2,200 degrees Celsius (3,100 to 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit), and is the result of a cosmic body impacting Earth.
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Watch CITY BENEATH THE WAVES: PAVLOPETRI Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 8PM e/p on Discovery. | http://dsc.discovery.com/#mkcpgn=ytdsc1 | Watch as these divers ex... READ MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlopetri
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(Phys.org) -- With the Moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state of mind – the word “lunacy” has its... Via SustainOurEarth
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Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology reopens after a 18-month closure for redevelopment. Home to some of the most important collections of its kind in the UK, the museum has undergone a stunning transformation.
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Shifts in exchange patterns provide a new perspective on the fall of inland Maya centers in Mesoamerica approximately 1,000 years ago. MAYA: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=maya
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From Copernicus to Ancient Korea, or what the Chinese concept of change has to do with Aztec astrology.
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The remains – confirmed to be tens of thousands of years old –have been hailed as the greatest discovery in more than half a century, according to reports.
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The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French archaeologists involving CNRS, the National Museum of Natural History, INRAP, EHESS and the University of Toulouse. ARCHAEOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=archaeology
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May 10, 2012 — Researchers have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved Maya mural and calendar markings that add perspective on Maya thinking.
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Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey. ARCHAEOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=archaeology
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http://www.ted.com In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations.
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Voodoo was born in the West African nation of Benin. And here it is an official religion.
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Scientists believe they've cracked one of the oldest mysteries of a disappearing civilization. The culprit? Climate change. Nearly 5,000 years ago the Harappan or Indus people created a society on the fertile Indus Valley that is now India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh—rivaling contemporary civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt, and making up 10 percent of the world's population. But nearly 2,000 years later its cities that spanned over 380,000 square miles were abandoned and crumbling.
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The remains of the world's oldest musical instruments and human figurines suggest that music and artistic depictions of the human form may have first developed in Germany around 40,000 years ago, say researchers.
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Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to be the oldest artifact with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.
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Archaeologists have discovered a spectacular tomb containing more than eighty individuals of different ages. This discovery – provisionally dated to around 1000 years ago – was made at the site of Pachacamac.
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New discoveries are upending the old theory of how the continent was settled.
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Anthropologists working in southern France have concluded that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art.
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Painted tables may be ancient equivalent of office whiteboards. Articles about MAYAS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=maya
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Scientists using X-ray imaging find out some of the secrets of the world's oldest 'computer' - the Antikythera Mechanism.
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