Hungry ancients 'turned cannibal'
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Starvation and cannibalism were part of life for a population of Neanderthals living 43,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists in Ecuador find that chillies were used in cooking more than 6,000 years ago.
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What did the first Olympians eat? Food historians are scouring ancient texts to find out.
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It is one of the oldest conflicts between man and beast: farmers killing marauders such as wolves, lynxes, lions and leopards to defend their livestock from the predators.
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Fossils from extinct dogs show why bigger is not better -- giant meat-eating animals died out because they relied too heavily on hunting other big animals, scientists reported on Thursday.
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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Eating while driving could be more dangerous than you thought.
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The victims of human sacrifice by  Mexico's ancient Mayans, who threw children into water-filled  caverns, were likely boys and young men not virgin girls as  previously believed, archeologists said on Tuesday.
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Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," because of a horny covering over its face.
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Islanders slate plans to depict their Dominican ancestors as cannibals in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel.
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people - a surprising new human species â-hat paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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INDIAN takeaway ordered from a British restaurant by Barmy Army fans in Australia will be destroyed when it arrives by plane.Comment
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In the year 65, the Roman emperor Nero discovered that a group of nobles had hatched a conspiracy to kill him. The tyrant captured the suspects one by one and threatened them with torture; most confessed and implicated others. One of the conspirators, Epicharis, was publicly tortured -- her bones...
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Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.
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The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico's 2,000 year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday.
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A long-necked sea reptile that lived millions of years ago in what is now China may have used its stiff neck to sneak up on unsuspecting prey and suck them in, scientists said on Friday.