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This 17th-Century Aristocrat Had an Ingenious Secret For Keeping Her Teeth
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (294+ words) In 1988, archaeologists cracked open a lead coffin inside the Château de Laval in northwestern France and found something peculiar....
France Records Hottest Day Ever as Europe Swelters in Extreme Heat
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (414+ words) Workers sweated in choking heat and pupils stayed home on Tuesday as an early-summer heatwave smothered much of Europe, with France suffering its hottest day on record....
Strange Green Stones And a Child's Tooth Deepen a Pyrenees Mystery
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (667+ words) For archaeologists there's something wonderfully strange about 'Cave 338', high up in the Pyrenees mountains in southwestern Europe. As remote and inhospitable as it is, it seems that prehistoric people returned time and time again to the spot. The cave is…...
Surprising Number of People Linked to Early US Colonists, DNA Study Finds
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (316+ words) A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical migration and ancestry from being eternally lost to time....
Strange Metal From Beyond Our World Spotted in an Ancient Treasure Stash
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (261+ words) Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all....
Startling Sounds From 6,000-Year-Old Shells Hint at Their Ancient Use
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (646+ words) Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for producing an extremely loud noise, scientists have discovered. The tests were simple – picking up the shells and blowing into them – but the…...
Extreme 'Fire Amoeba' Smashes Record For Heat Tolerance
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (889+ words) A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance. The newly named Incendiamoeba cascadensis – meaning "fire amoeba from the Cascades", as described in a preprint on…...
Medieval Artifacts Uncovered in Vulture Nests Across Southern Spain
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (681+ words) Vultures are not known for their museum conservation skills, but perhaps that ought to change. Scientists have discovered an unlikely record of human history deep within layers of bone debris left by generations of bearded vultures and their bone-crunching babies,…...
12,000-Year-Old Bones Could Be One of Earliest Known Murder Victims
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (490+ words) Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Vietnam could belong to one of the world's earliest known victims of homicide. An analysis of the bones and circumstances of his death suggests that the man, aged around 35 years at the time…...