Botswana "snake rock" may show Stone Age religion
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Carvings about 70,000 years old on a snake-like rock in a cave in Botswana indicate that Stone Age people developed religious rituals far earlier than previously believed, a researcher said on Thursday.
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A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder.
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In the caves of South Africa's  Cederberg mountains, an ancient people left a legacy of rock  art that could teach modern man a valuable lesson or two about  living in harmony with nature.
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Computer analysis of an African fossil indicates that a human-like creature walked upright six million years ago&#151;the earliest evidence of bipedalism found to date.
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The fossil called Little Foot, which had tantalized scientists with its human- and apelike features, is a million years younger than had been thought, a new study says.
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The finding of a dinosaur fossil in southern China has given new clues to the evolution and hunting practices of a long-necked aquatic reptile that lived some 230 million years ago, the magazine Science said on Thursday.
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Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems. A South African fossil suggests pelycosaurs -- intermediates between reptiles and mammals that lived in the Permian Period before the rise of dinosaurs -- may have been caring parents 260 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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A piece of jawbone found in a Devon cave is to be re-examined by scientists to see if it is from a Neanderthal man.
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Researchers use X-ray scanners to create 3-D models of prehistoric creatures preserved inside rocks.
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The fossil gives us a missing link, not directly between humans and an apelike ancestor, but between great apes and lesser apes such as gibbons.
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Botswana's government Thursday accepted a court order to allow the Bushmen, the nation's last hunter-gatherers, to live on their ancestral lands. But at the same time, officials imposed tough conditions likely to prevent most or all from returning.
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Anthropologists are not often giddy with excitement, but the unearthing of the skeleton of a meter-tall female who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18,000 years ago has them whooping with delight the finding of another piece of the puzzle of the
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For the past couple of years, these mysterious circles of carved stone figures, which villagers in southern Nigeria still worship on occasion, have been causing a frenzy of excitement here.
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GABORONE : Voters went to the polls in diamond-rich Botswana in elections that are expected to hand victory to the party in power since independence in 1966 in one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries.
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.
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Archaeologists in South Carolina announced radiocarbon dates suggesting that people made tools near the Savannah River about 50,000 years ago.