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The Earliest Evidence Of Making Fire Has Been Discovered, Dating To 400,000 Years AgoArtist’s impression of fire at Barnham around 400,000 years ago

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The Earliest Evidence Of Making Fire Has Been Discovered, Dating To 400,000 Years AgoArtist’s impression of fire at Barnham around 400,000 years ago
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The Earliest Evidence Of Making Fire Has Been Discovered, Dating To 400,000 Years Ago

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How Could Woolly Mammoths Sense When A Storm Was Coming? By Listening With Their Feeta family of woolly mammoths standing in the snow

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How Could Woolly Mammoths Sense When A Storm Was Coming? By Listening With Their Feeta family of woolly mammoths standing in the snow
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How Could Woolly Mammoths Sense When A Storm Was Coming? By Listening With Their Feet

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Bear-Sized Snow Sloths? Meet Megalonyx, The Ice Age Giants That Lived Until 13,000 Years Agoa snow sloth carries its baby on its back

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Bear-Sized Snow Sloths? Meet Megalonyx, The Ice Age Giants That Lived Until 13,000 Years Agoa snow sloth carries its baby on its back
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Bear-Sized Snow Sloths? Meet Megalonyx, The Ice Age Giants That Lived Until 13,000 Years Ago

clock-iconOctober 21, 2025
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Why Did Humans Start Using Fire? New Theory Suggests It Wasn't To Cook Foodorange flames of a campfire against a black background

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Why Did Humans Start Using Fire? New Theory Suggests It Wasn't To Cook Foodorange flames of a campfire against a black background
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Why Did Humans Start Using Fire? New Theory Suggests It Wasn't To Cook Food

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A Giant Underground Structure From Prehistory Lays Deep Under Malta: Ħal Saflieni HypogeumThe Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum is a subterranean structure featuring chambers, corridors, open spaces, nooks, and halls

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A Giant Underground Structure From Prehistory Lays Deep Under Malta: Ħal Saflieni HypogeumThe Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum is a subterranean structure featuring chambers, corridors, open spaces, nooks, and halls
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A Giant Underground Structure From Prehistory Lays Deep Under Malta: Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum

clock-iconMarch 12, 2025
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Ancient Americans And Dogs Became Best Buddies 2,000 Years Earlier Than ThoughtResearchers unearthed this 8,100-year-old canine jawbone in interior Alaska in June 2023.

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Ancient Americans And Dogs Became Best Buddies 2,000 Years Earlier Than ThoughtResearchers unearthed this 8,100-year-old canine jawbone in interior Alaska in June 2023.
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Ancient Americans And Dogs Became Best Buddies 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

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Butchered Giant Armadillo Shows Humans Were In South America 21,000 Years AgoPrehistoric armadillo butchery

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Butchered Giant Armadillo Shows Humans Were In South America 21,000 Years AgoPrehistoric armadillo butchery
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Butchered Giant Armadillo Shows Humans Were In South America 21,000 Years Ago

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What Are Megaliths?megalithic structures

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What Are Megaliths?megalithic structures
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What Are Megaliths?

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What Are Some Of The World's Oldest Megalithic Structures?A photo of the standing stones on the the Isle of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. The stones are arranged in a lush green field and the photo shoes a dark and story sky. Some of the stones have weathered into points whereas others still retain a more regular shape.

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What Are Some Of The World's Oldest Megalithic Structures?A photo of the standing stones on the the Isle of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. The stones are arranged in a lush green field and the photo shoes a dark and story sky. Some of the stones have weathered into points whereas others still retain a more regular shape.
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What Are Some Of The World's Oldest Megalithic Structures?

clock-iconApril 2, 2024
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Homo Sapiens' First Homeland Outside Of Africa Has Been FoundAn archeologist in Pebdeh Cave, a prehistoric site located in present-day Iran among the southern Zagros Mountains was occupied by hunter-gatherers as early as 42,000 years ago.

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Homo Sapiens' First Homeland Outside Of Africa Has Been FoundAn archeologist in Pebdeh Cave, a prehistoric site located in present-day Iran among the southern Zagros Mountains was occupied by hunter-gatherers as early as 42,000 years ago.
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Homo Sapiens' First Homeland Outside Of Africa Has Been Found

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Singing Ankylosaurs, 310-Million-Year-Old Fossil Spiders, And A “Giant Sea Monster” Join The Planet's Prehistoric Wonderssinging ankylosaur, spider fossil, pliosaur

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Singing Ankylosaurs, 310-Million-Year-Old Fossil Spiders, And A “Giant Sea Monster” Join The Planet's Prehistoric Wonderssinging ankylosaur, spider fossil, pliosaur
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Singing Ankylosaurs, 310-Million-Year-Old Fossil Spiders, And A “Giant Sea Monster” Join The Planet's Prehistoric Wonders

clock-iconDecember 24, 2023
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Voyager 1 Sends Repeating Message From Interstellar Space, A Prehistoric “Lost World" Has Been Hiding Out On Earth, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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Voyager 1 Sends Repeating Message From Interstellar Space, A Prehistoric “Lost World" Has Been Hiding Out On Earth, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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Voyager 1 Sends Repeating Message From Interstellar Space, A Prehistoric “Lost World" Has Been Hiding Out On Earth, And Much More This Week

clock-iconDecember 15, 2023
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Prehistoric Children’s Handprints In Tibet May Not Be World’s Oldest Art After AllTibet prehistoric child hand footprints

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Prehistoric Children’s Handprints In Tibet May Not Be World’s Oldest Art After AllTibet prehistoric child hand footprints
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Prehistoric Children’s Handprints In Tibet May Not Be World’s Oldest Art After All

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New Satellite Images Reveal Europe’s Hidden Bronze Age MegastructuresAn aerial photo of one of the circular formations under the landscape, showing impressions of circular sites superimposed on brown and green fields

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New Satellite Images Reveal Europe’s Hidden Bronze Age MegastructuresAn aerial photo of one of the circular formations under the landscape, showing impressions of circular sites superimposed on brown and green fields
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New Satellite Images Reveal Europe’s Hidden Bronze Age Megastructures

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Early Humans Crafted Skeletal Remains Into A Drinking Cup And Other ToolsA tree seen through the opening of a cave.

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Early Humans Crafted Skeletal Remains Into A Drinking Cup And Other ToolsA tree seen through the opening of a cave.
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Early Humans Crafted Skeletal Remains Into A Drinking Cup And Other Tools

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