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Fossilized dinosaurs often have wide-open mouths, heads thrown back and tails that curve toward the head. Paleontologists have long assumed the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or that rigor mortis or drying muscles, tendons and ligaments contorted the limbs.
“I’m reading this in the literature and thinking, ‘This […]

Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital reconstruction project, said to be the world’s biggest computer simulation.
An international team of architects, archaeologists and experts spent 10 years working on a real-time 3D model of the city called Rome Reborn.
Some 7,000 buildings were scanned and reproduced using a model of the […]

June 8, 2007 — Neanderthals likely did not possess the cognitive complexities of modern humans and, as a result, probably did not suffer from schizophrenia and certain other mental disorders, according to a new theory.
The theory proposes that language, creativity and many mental diseases are linked, due to the fact that they may originate in […]

TURA, India (AFP) - Claims by terrified villagers that “bigfoot“-type hairy giants are roaming the jungles of India’s remote northeast have prompted authorities to order an investigation, a local official said.
The bizarre sightings have been made in the Garo hills area of Meghalaya state, close to the borders with Bangladesh and Bhutan, with villagers calling […]