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Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution captured close-up images of a WWI-era submarine lost at sea 108 years ago.

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A nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan village was discovered in northern Guatemala
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Life reconstruction of Mosura fentoni
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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (515009di) The skull of a newly discovered species of human - Homo Floresiensis. Believed to be living 18,000 years ago, barely a metre tall with a skull the size of a grapefruit. The partial skeleton was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores - 27 Oct 2004 VARIOUS
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The remarkable fossil that radically changed our understanding of the human story
Sue the T. rex strikes a pose in its old location at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. (Antonio Perez /Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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Babylonian clay model showing a nude couple engaged in kissing. Date: 1800 BC
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1842 painting by Jacob Spin showing Koning Willem de Tweede at Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia).
Rotterdam Maritime Museum
19th century shipwreck discovered off Australian coast highlights once common maritime ‘side hustle’
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Hundreds of artifacts reveal where the Aztecs got their obsidian
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Newly named ancient cicada fossil is so well preserved you can see the veins in its wings
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Medieval tale of Merlin and King Arthur found hiding as a book cover
The piece illustrates the disparity of the Northern and Southern hemisphere’s evolution of terrestrial Cretaceous faunas after the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum. On the left, End Cretaceous Southern Hemisphere (Western Gondwana) became dominated by Megaraptorids theropods and titanosaur sauropods. The centre of the piece summaries the extinction event of terrestrial fauna at the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, where the apex predators the carcharodontosaurids allosaurs went extinct and tyrannosauroids (including megaraptoran and the ancestors of <em>Tyrannosaurus rex</em>) were small. On the right, the end Cretaceous Northern Hemisphere fauna dominated by Tyrannosaurids (such as <em>Tyrannosaurus rex</em>), hadrosaurs and ceratopsian ornithischian dinosaurs. The environment also became more mesic represented by the landscape compared to the more semi-arid seasonal environment earlier in the Cretaceous.
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T. rex ancestors crossed from Asia to North America via land bridge 70 million years ago, study finds
Researchers were able to decipher letters written in the burned, still-rolled scroll.
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Cat-like footprints from the John Day Formation of Oregon.
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Fossilized footprints reveal unprecedented insight into prehistoric animal behavior in Oregon
Archeological dig at Fonmon Castle.
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Unearthed skeletons reveal tough lives of Early Medieval women
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gianni Dagli Orti/Shutterstock (5850752qs) Lion fight in the circus, relief, terracotta, 1st century AD Roman Art (Archaeology) - various Location: Museo Nazionale Terme Rome
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An artists interpretation shows Deinosuchus riograndensis swimming with an early alligator relative in the wetlands of the Western Interior Seaway in southwestern North America, during the Late Cretaceous.
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An ancient ‘terror crocodile’ became a dinosaur-eating giant. Scientists say they now know why
A reconstruction of the altar illustrates the painted panels of red, black and yellow which would have depicted a person wearing a feathered headdress and flanked by shields or regalia.
Heather Hurst
Mysterious altar found in ancient Mayan city contains bodies – and wasn’t made by the Maya
Reconstruction of a late Maastrichtian (~66 million years ago) palaeoenvironment in North America, where a floodplain is roamed by dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex, Edmontosaurus annectens and Triceratops prorsus.
Davide Bonadonna
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