Prehistoric Romeo and Juliet discovered
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They died young and, by the looks of it, in love. Two 5,000-year-old skeletons found locked in an embrace near the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale "Romeo and Juliet" have sparked theories the remains of a far more ancient love story have been found.
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In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
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The remains of a primate that could be the ancestor of humans and all the great apes is discovered.
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.
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THE DISCOVERY: The bones of a human dwarf species marooned on the remote Indonesian island of Flores between 95,000 and 12,000 years ago while modern humans rapidly developed elsewhere.
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Fossil hunters have unearthed the skeleton of a young girl who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.
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Sections of an ancient Greek theater were discovered on Thursday during construction work in an Athens suburb, archaeologists said.
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Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.
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Villagers digging in China's rich fossil beds have uncovered the preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals couldn't possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.
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A Finnish research team has made a remarkable archaeological find linked to a prehistoric culture which predates the Incas.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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Two newly discovered fossils show that a few early mammals were as large as a dog and spunky enough to devour juvenile dinosaurs.
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Scientists have found the remains of a creature that may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.