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3,000-year-old ivory carving depicts whaling scene

April 1 (ANI): Archaeologists working in the Russian Arctic have unearthed a remarkably detailed 3,000-year-old ivory carving that depicts groups of hunters engaged in whaling, which pushes

Stone Age man’s presence in West Bengal much earlier than believed

March 29 : Archaeologists have unearthed small Stone Age weapons in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, dating back to around 15,000-20,000 years, which suggests man’s

Neanderthals used make-up and could speak

March 28: Archaeologists have found crafted lumps of pigment at a site in France, left behind by Neanderthals across Europe, which indicates that the primitive race used make-up and could speak.

Chimps judge strangers through observation

Mar 27 : Chimps make judgments about strangers’ actions and dispositions by observing their behaviour and interactions in different situations, says a new research.

World’s “First European” confirmed to be 1.2 million years old

March 27 : The analysis of a prehistoric fossil that was found in northern Spain last year, has confirmed that the first settlers in Europe reached the continent 1.2 million years ago.

Humans and Neanderthals may have interbred, but had no hybrids

Dec 6 : A new study has suggested that humans may have interbred with Neanderthals, but there were no hybrids that emerged as a result.

World’s largest known horned dinosaur unearthed

Nov 29: Paleontologists have found the world’s largest known horned dinosaur, with the discovery of an early relative of Triceratops that measured around 30 feet in length.

“Strange” British fossil is part of new dinosaur family, say experts

Nov.22 : A forgotten museum fossil that had been gathering dust for more than a century is actually from a mysterious British dinosaur that represents an entirely new family, scientists

Giant scorpions 460 million years ago were larger than humans

Nov 21 : Biologists have discovered a giant fossilized claw of an ancient sea scorpion in

Evolution is orderly, not random; reveals new study

Nov 20 : A new study by biologists has concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random.