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New Dinosaur Species Discovered In Australia Was Long As A Basketball Court And Towered Over T.Rex

Australotitan cooperensis was "certainly the largest animal that's ever walked the Outback."

By Marco Margaritoff • Jun 10, 2021

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New Dinosaur Species Discovered In Australia Was Long As A Basketball Court And Towered Over T.Rex

Australotitan cooperensis was "certainly the largest animal that's ever walked the Outback."

By Marco Margaritoff • June 10, 2021

Stone Age People Had Hours-Long Raves And Wore Elk-Tooth Ornaments To Make Entrancing Soundscapes

Thousands of elk teeth were discovered in a prehistoric burial ground. They showed wear patterns that could only have been produced through years of dancing.

By Marco Margaritoff • Jun 9, 2021

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Stone Age People Had Hours-Long Raves And Wore Elk-Tooth Ornaments To Make Entrancing Soundscapes

Thousands of elk teeth were discovered in a prehistoric burial ground. They showed wear patterns that could only have been produced through years of dancing.

By Marco Margaritoff • June 9, 2021

Silver Coins Unearthed In Poland May Have Been A 9th-Century Ransom Payment To Viking Invaders

The 118 silver coins were found buried in a farmer's field in the Polish town of Biskupiec, and are believed to have been connected to the Siege of Paris in 845 A.D.

By Marco Margaritoff • Jun 9, 2021

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Silver Coins Unearthed In Poland May Have Been A 9th-Century Ransom Payment To Viking Invaders

The 118 silver coins were found buried in a farmer's field in the Polish town of Biskupiec, and are believed to have been connected to the Siege of Paris in 845 A.D.

By Marco Margaritoff • June 9, 2021

Archaeologists Have Discovered An Ancient Greek Jar Used To Curse 55 People In Athens

The jar contained the dismembered head and feet of a seven-month-old chicken and was pierced with a nine-inch long iron nail before being buried at the commercial heart of ancient Athens.

By Marco Margaritoff • Jun 8, 2021

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Archaeologists Have Discovered An Ancient Greek Jar Used To Curse 55 People In Athens

The jar contained the dismembered head and feet of a seven-month-old chicken and was pierced with a nine-inch long iron nail before being buried at the commercial heart of ancient Athens.

By Marco Margaritoff • June 8, 2021

Scientists Thaw Live Organisms That Have Been Frozen In Siberian Permafrost For 24,000 Years

"They're the world's most resistant animal to just about any form of torture ... They're probably the only animals we know that could do pretty well in outer space."

By Marco Margaritoff • Jun 8, 2021

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Scientists Thaw Live Organisms That Have Been Frozen In Siberian Permafrost For 24,000 Years

"They're the world's most resistant animal to just about any form of torture ... They're probably the only animals we know that could do pretty well in outer space."

By Marco Margaritoff • June 8, 2021

Discovery Of Skeleton In Shackles Identified As Rare Example Of Roman-Era Slavery

Archaeologists are certain that the remains belong to a Roman-era slave but can only speculate about why someone buried him in shackles.

By Kaleena Fraga • Jun 7, 2021

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Discovery Of Skeleton In Shackles Identified As Rare Example Of Roman-Era Slavery

Archaeologists are certain that the remains belong to a Roman-era slave but can only speculate about why someone buried him in shackles.

By Kaleena Fraga • June 7, 2021

Yemeni Fishermen Find And Sell 280 Pound Chunk Of Whale Vomit — For $1.5 Million

The 35 fishermen followed their noses to a whale carcass in the Gulf of Aden and discovered to their delight that it contained the rare substance ambergris.

By Kaleena Fraga • Jun 7, 2021

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Yemeni Fishermen Find And Sell 280 Pound Chunk Of Whale Vomit — For $1.5 Million

The 35 fishermen followed their noses to a whale carcass in the Gulf of Aden and discovered to their delight that it contained the rare substance ambergris.

By Kaleena Fraga • June 7, 2021

This Week In History News, May 30 – Jun. 5

Century-old message in a beer bottle discovered in Detroit, the earliest animal carvings ever found in Scotland, and Roman-era decapitations uncovered in England.

By All That's Interesting • Jun 4, 2021

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This Week In History News, May 30 – Jun. 5

Century-old message in a beer bottle discovered in Detroit, the earliest animal carvings ever found in Scotland, and Roman-era decapitations uncovered in England.

By All That's Interesting • June 4, 2021

Remains Of Children Uncovered At Former Indigenous School Site In Canada

The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Nation found 215 bodies on the grounds of the defunct Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar.

By Kaleena Fraga • Jun 4, 2021

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Remains Of Children Uncovered At Former Indigenous School Site In Canada

The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Nation found 215 bodies on the grounds of the defunct Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar.

By Kaleena Fraga • June 4, 2021

Discovery In Mexico Indicates The First Americans Arrived 20,000 Years Before We Thought

Researchers dated a set of animal bones found in Coxcatlán Cave to around 30,000 years ago — completely upending previous estimates of when humans first arrived in the Americas.

By Leah Silverman • Jun 4, 2021

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Discovery In Mexico Indicates The First Americans Arrived 20,000 Years Before We Thought

Researchers dated a set of animal bones found in Coxcatlán Cave to around 30,000 years ago — completely upending previous estimates of when humans first arrived in the Americas.

By Leah Silverman • June 4, 2021