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New Tyrant Dinosaur Stalked Ancient New Mexico

The Dynamoterror, a relative of Tyrannosaurs rex, lived millions of years before other known species of tyrannosaur

Ancient Unwashed Dishes Reveal Food of a Lost City

Material pulled from ceramic sherds reveals the favored foodstuffs in the 8,000-year-old city of Çatalhöyük in Turkey

Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts

The board game hnefatafl, commonly called Viking chess, pits an attacking player against another trying to defend the king

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TESS Space Telescope Will Find Thousands of Worlds

NASA's new space telescope has already discovered two planets, but the hunt for a world like Earth is just getting started

Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered

The 450,000-year-old teeth, discovered on the Italian Peninsula, are helping anthropologists piece together the hominid family tree

Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered

The 450,000-year-old teeth, discovered on the Italian Peninsula, are helping anthropologists piece together the hominid family tree

New Tyrant Dinosaur Stalked Ancient New Mexico — New Tyrant Dinosaur Stalked Ancient New Mexico

The Dynamoterror, a relative of Tyrannosaurs rex, lived millions of years before other known species of tyrannosaur

Ancient Unwashed Dishes Reveal Food of a Lost City — Ancient Unwashed Dishes Reveal Food of a Lost City

Material pulled from ceramic sherds reveals the favored foodstuffs in the 8,000-year-old city of Çatalhöyük in Turkey

Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts — Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts

The board game hnefatafl, commonly called Viking chess, pits an attacking player against another trying to defend the king

New Discovery Stirs Up Signs of Elusive Planet 9 — New Discovery Stirs Up Signs of Elusive Planet 9

A new minor planet called "the Goblin" is the second most distant known object in the solar system

TESS Space Telescope Will Find Thousands of Worlds — TESS Space Telescope Will Find Thousands of Worlds

NASA's new space telescope has already discovered two planets, but the hunt for a world like Earth is just getting started

Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered — Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered

The 450,000-year-old teeth, discovered on the Italian Peninsula, are helping anthropologists piece together the hominid family tree

Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered — Ancient Teeth With Neanderthal Features Discovered

The 450,000-year-old teeth, discovered on the Italian Peninsula, are helping anthropologists piece together the hominid family tree

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