Ancient World

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See the earliest known gold necklace created in the Western Hemisphere—found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca in Peru.

April 02, 2008
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Changes in climate may have first shrunk the woolly mammoth's habitat, but humans delivered the final blow to the species, a new study shows.

April 1, 2008
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Tubular organisms that lived about 565 million years ago were found in positions that indicate they may have been the first animals to engage in sexual reproduction, researchers suggest.

April 1, 2008
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Scientists have unearthed a pristinely preserved statue of Queen Tiye—the favorite wife of pharaoh Amenhotep III—in ancient Egypt's largest funerary complex.

March 31, 2008
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A nine-bead necklace discovered in Peru is the oldest known gold artifact in the Americas, according to archaeologists.

March 31, 2008
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A 12-foot-tall (3.6-meter-tall) colossus of Queen Tiye—the influential main wife of noted pharaoh Amenhotep III—has been unearthed at a sprawling temple complex in Luxor.

March 31, 2008
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The tuatara may look the same as it did millions of years ago, but its DNA is rapidly changing, experts say.

March 31, 2008
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A temple thought to have once housed idols and mummies has been unearthed near an ancient Inca site in Cusco, Peru, scientists say.

March 31, 2008
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The largest species of giant elephant shrew has been discovered in Tanzania, and it may actually have an ancient connection to elephants.

March 28, 2008
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A suspicious package in the bus's cargo hold turned out to contain a massive lower jawbone that likely belonged to an elephant-like animal.

March 28, 2008
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The ten-foot-long (three-meter-long) reptile likely came to dominate the seas as larger marine animals went extinct 62 million years ago, scientists announced.

March 27, 2008
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The new genus of dinosaur-era, carnivorous reptile, found deep in a Canadian mine, is also one of the most complete fossils of its kind ever unearthed.

March 26, 2008
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A 1.2-million-year-old jawbone uncovered in northern Spain show that humans reached Western Europe far earlier than previously thought, scientists say.

March 26, 2008
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A rare fossil discovered in Japan is the oldest known plant-eating lizard, scientists say, shedding light on an evolutionary puzzle that stymied Charles Darwin.

March 24, 2008
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A "lucky" scientist who unearthed curious bones in India recently found out they are the world's oldest known rabbit fossils, dating back 53 million years.

March 21, 2008

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