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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Catsmammoths walk in the background as a group of ground squirrels feast on the carcass of a dead mammoth

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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Catsmammoths walk in the background as a group of ground squirrels feast on the carcass of a dead mammoth
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Ice Age Zombies? 700,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Reveals Squirrels Crawled Out Of The Ground To Feast On Dead Mammoths, Bison, And Big Cats

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Ancient Bacterial DNA Has Been Recovered From A 1.1-Million-Year-Old MammothA mammoth skeleton in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California.

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Ancient Bacterial DNA Has Been Recovered From A 1.1-Million-Year-Old MammothA mammoth skeleton in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California.
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Ancient Bacterial DNA Has Been Recovered From A 1.1-Million-Year-Old Mammoth

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A New Lineage Of Tropical Mammoths Is Discovered In MexicoA depiction of a Steppe Mammoth at the Australian Museum.

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A New Lineage Of Tropical Mammoths Is Discovered In MexicoA depiction of a Steppe Mammoth at the Australian Museum.
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A New Lineage Of Tropical Mammoths Is Discovered In Mexico

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The "Plague Of Justinian" May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause.Yersinia pestis up close.

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The "Plague Of Justinian" May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause.Yersinia pestis up close.
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The "Plague Of Justinian" May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause.

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Denisovan DNA May Have Been Key To Humans Thriving In The AmericasThe DNA we have discovered in Denisova Cave is telling us things about the genetics of populations on the other side of the world.

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Denisovan DNA May Have Been Key To Humans Thriving In The AmericasThe DNA we have discovered in Denisova Cave is telling us things about the genetics of populations on the other side of the world.
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Denisovan DNA May Have Been Key To Humans Thriving In The Americas

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Ancient DNA Confirms Women’s Unexpected Status In One Of The Oldest Known Neolithic SettlementsEva Rosenstock during the excavations at Çatalhöyük West. Her work has contributed to an advance in understanding of the older East Çatalhöyük, one of the first permanent settlements in the world.

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Ancient DNA Confirms Women’s Unexpected Status In One Of The Oldest Known Neolithic SettlementsEva Rosenstock during the excavations at Çatalhöyük West. Her work has contributed to an advance in understanding of the older East Çatalhöyük, one of the first permanent settlements in the world.
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Ancient DNA Confirms Women’s Unexpected Status In One Of The Oldest Known Neolithic Settlements

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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Lived In The Sahara When It Was GreenA 7,000-year-old mummy from the Green Sahara

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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Lived In The Sahara When It Was GreenA 7,000-year-old mummy from the Green Sahara
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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Lived In The Sahara When It Was Green

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Europeans Were Mostly Dark-Skinned Until Roman Times, Ancient DNA SuggestsCheddar Man

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Europeans Were Mostly Dark-Skinned Until Roman Times, Ancient DNA SuggestsCheddar Man
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Europeans Were Mostly Dark-Skinned Until Roman Times, Ancient DNA Suggests

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Black Death DNA Found In 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian MummyAncient Egyptian mummy

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Black Death DNA Found In 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian MummyAncient Egyptian mummy
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Black Death DNA Found In 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

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"Peculiar Characteristics" Of Pre-Roman Picene Civilization Revealed By Ancient DNAA limestone statue of a Picene warrior, dated to around the 6th century BCE. at the Chieti Museum in Italy

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"Peculiar Characteristics" Of Pre-Roman Picene Civilization Revealed By Ancient DNAA limestone statue of a Picene warrior, dated to around the 6th century BCE. at the Chieti Museum in Italy
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"Peculiar Characteristics" Of Pre-Roman Picene Civilization Revealed By Ancient DNA

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800-Year-Old Corpse In Well May Have Been Used As A Biological WeaponWell-man skeleton

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800-Year-Old Corpse In Well May Have Been Used As A Biological WeaponWell-man skeleton
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800-Year-Old Corpse In Well May Have Been Used As A Biological Weapon

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17,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals Ice Age Infant Had Blue Eyes And Was A Product Of IncestPhotograph of the infant burial during excavation, skeletal remains in brown earth

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17,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals Ice Age Infant Had Blue Eyes And Was A Product Of IncestPhotograph of the infant burial during excavation, skeletal remains in brown earth
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17,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals Ice Age Infant Had Blue Eyes And Was A Product Of Incest

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What Is The Oldest Evidence Of DNA Ever Recovered On Earth?Orange DNA molecule on black background

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What Is The Oldest Evidence Of DNA Ever Recovered On Earth?Orange DNA molecule on black background
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What Is The Oldest Evidence Of DNA Ever Recovered On Earth?

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Woolly Mammoth Skin "Freeze-Dried" For 52,000 Years Delivers First-Ever 3D Chromosomesa mammoth foot with freeze dried skin

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Woolly Mammoth Skin "Freeze-Dried" For 52,000 Years Delivers First-Ever 3D Chromosomesa mammoth foot with freeze dried skin
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Woolly Mammoth Skin "Freeze-Dried" For 52,000 Years Delivers First-Ever 3D Chromosomes

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Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal BonesPurple adenovirus virions under a transmission electron microscope

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Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal BonesPurple adenovirus virions under a transmission electron microscope
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Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones

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