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27,000-year-old pendants crafted from the skin of extinct giant sloths could help rewrite the human history of the Americas
Researchers found what appeared to be pendants in Brazil, dating from around 25,000 to 27,000 years…
Alia Shoaib
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An Air India plane flying to San Francisco was forced to land in a remote town in Siberia after an engine failure
More than 200 passengers on the flight had to sleep on the floor of a local school overnight as the…
Sophia Ankel
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300,000-year-old footprints are some of the oldest in Europe and show how our ancient ancestors co-existed with rhinos and elephants on lake and river shores
Three fossilized footprints were left behind by the ancient human species Homo heidelbergensis and …
Kelly Burch
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From mammoth teeth, scientists just pulled DNA that's more than 1 million years old - the oldest DNA ever found
Researchers just sequenced the world's oldest known DNA, which came from mammoth teeth found in the…
Aylin Woodward
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The carcass of a young woolly rhinoceros that died thousands of years ago was found almost perfectly preserved in the Siberia permafrost. Researchers even found the animal's horn.
Researchers analyzed an intact woolly rhino carcass found in the Siberian permafrost last year. The…
Aylin Woodward
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The 'mammoth meatball' grown in a lab probably doesn't taste like woolly mammoth at all
Lab-grown meat startup Vow used a gene from mammoth DNA identical to one in Asian elephants. But th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Kelsey …
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Air India passengers stranded in Siberia for 2 days were abandoned by the crew, had to sleep on the floor, and were only given bread and rice, relative says
An Air India Boeing 777 had to make an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia, on Tuesday after it de…
Sophia Ankel
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Scientists revived a 'zombie' virus frozen for 48,500 years in ice. They learned it could still infect other cells.
Although the virus was frozen for thousands of years, it was infectious — and scientists worry dead…
Chris Panella,Morgan McFall-J…
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Some Neanderthals couldn't smell their own stink, suggests a new study recreating early humans' noses
Understanding what early humans smelled can offer better context for our own sense of smell, and gi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Kremlin plans to send 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and the Arctic Circle, report says, as Zelenskyy warns of 'filtration camps' for captured people
Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of moving thousands of people from the city of Mariupol to …
Sophia Ankel
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Rain could soon overtake snow in parts of the Arctic, top scientists warn
The Arctic fringes may become rainfall-dominant environments in a few decades. In places like south…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists revive 48,500-year-old zombie virus buried under a frozen lake in Russia
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ANI
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The carcass of an extinct cave bear thought to be over 22,000 years old was discovered in remote Siberia — the only find of its kind
Scientists found the cave bear's carcass preserved in the Siberian permafrost. Until now, they had …
Aylin Woodward
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The science behind why your dog copies your behavior and tears up when they're reunited with you
A growing body of research suggests that dogs mirror their owners' behavior. They may also be able …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Nobel prize winner Svante Paabo's DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of…
PTI
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Candida auris is just one infection fueled by rising temperatures. See how extreme climate helps spread disease, in 3 simple charts.
Climate change can supercharge pathogens, weaken humans, and create more opportunities for infectio…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Russian passenger plane that disappeared in Siberia has been located with all 19 people aboard still alive
The Antonov-28 plane, operated by regional airline SiLA, had reportedly made an emergency landing a…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Siberia is on fire like never before, leaving Russia to fend off one too many hotspots
Russia is already one of the world’s worst-affected coronavirus hotspots and now it has another —…
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An ancient tooth found in a cave proves an extinct species of archaic humans lived in southeast Asia over 130,000 years ago
Scientists were looking at how humans in southeast Asia today have some genes of an ancient human s…
Marianne Guenot
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Siberia will be full of investment opportunities in the next 3 decades if you can get in right after the war, says a fund manager who manages $7 billion in assets
Russia could "surprise on the upside" for investors after the war in Ukaine, said Cheah Cheng Hye, …