Author: Mary JL

Archaeologists wearing hard hats and face masks carefully remove soil from around the giant skeletons at Mexico City’s new airport, where construction work has uncovered a huge trove of mammoth bones giant. A huge mammoth graveyard has been uncovered at the site of Mexico City’s new airport The remains of dozens of the extinct giants…

The Anteosaurus, a premammalian reptile that roamed the African continent 265 to 260 million years ago—during a period known as the middle Permian—was a ferocious carnivore. It had massive, bone-crushing teeth, gigantic skull and powerful jaw.However, while it was previously thought that this beast of a creature—that grew to about the size of an adult…

Anyone who’s raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their growth seems to be. You leave for a few days on a work trip and when you come home the child seems to have grown 10cm! That’s all well and good for the modern household, but how did…

An Egyptian archaeological mission uncovered an impressive collection of 59 intact and sealed coffins at Saqqara Necropolis south of Cairo.Sixty ambassadors and international media representatives flocked to the scene on Saturday to witness the announcement of the new discovery.On-site, almost 40 anthropoid painted coffins were placed in a large tent, while the rest of the…

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Did you know that the remnants of an ancient planet are buried deep within the Moon? Although we have successfully landed on the Moon and explored its surface the best way possible, the Moon, its origin, and history remain a profound enigma to humans. We know it’s not made of cheese. The ancient Greeks began…

A rather incredible discovery occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland, where a woman found a 135-year-old message in a bottle under her floorboards. Everything started in October 1877 when two local workers left a note under the floorboards at a Morningside villa. The message was placed in a bottle and left untouched until now when Eilidh Stimpson,…

Scientists in Argentina have discovered the 86 million-year-old fossilized remains of a huge ancient flying reptile nicknamed “The Dragon of Death” that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The find provides insight into the predator, whose body was as long as a yellow school bus. The new specimen of ancient flying reptile, or pterosaur, measured around 30…

Dubbed Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, this massive creature weighed two tons and stretched 12 feet long. As the Natural History in London reported, researchers found that the turtle had a strange bone protruding from the side of its pelvis. Known as an accessory pubic process, such a feature has never been documented in any turtles — living…

The complete skeletal remains of a spider monkey—seen as an exotic curiosity in pre-Hispanic Mexico—gives researchers new evidence regarding social-political ties between two ancient powerhouses: Teotihuacán and Maya Indigenous rulers. The discovery was made by Nawa Sugiyama, a UC Riverside anthropological archaeologist, and a team of archaeologists and anthropologists, who since 2015 have been excavating…