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Paleontologists from National Taiwan University recently discovered a single python vertebra dating back 400,000 to 800,000 ...

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An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Long before humans arrived, Australia was home to unique dinosaurs and massive megafauna found nowhere else on Earth. Its isolation shaped one of the strangest evolutionary stories in history. This ...

In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...

Russia’s vast woods have too frequently been overlooked in our understanding of the country’s violent history ...

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