Study suggests Neanderthals were wiped out by a common childhood ear infection

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Of all the possible ways the Neanderthals may have gone extinct, it turns out that it may have been as simple as a common childhood affliction that ultimately spelled their doom. Illness is part of being human, no matter how much we don't like it. It helps build up our...

New study reveals what brought down the powerful Assyrian empire

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For 1,400 years, the ancient Assyrian empire dominated the Middle East ruling an area stretching from Turkey to Egypt and east to Iran through what is today Northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq. And then it all fell apart because of a megadrought caused by climate change. The Assyrians were truly...

Scientists genetically link orangutans to giant ape thought to be Bigfoot

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Bigfoot may or may not be real, but there is a living relative of the giant ape thought to be Bigfoot already living among us known as the orangutan, according to scientists who studied the ape's genetic code. There have been countless Bigfoot sightings for hundreds of years, and the...

Study reveals ancient humans migrated to the Levant from Europe 40,000 years ago

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A study of ancient teeth belonging to modern humans and Neanderthals of the Aurignacian culture at Manot Cave in Israel is shedding new light on human migration from Europe to the Levant around 40,000 years ago. The Levant includes the historic areas of Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Syria with close...

Could an increase in Antarctic ice levels trigger a new ice age and help...

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Scientists studying the causes of ice ages say that an increase in Antarctic ice levels could be enough to trigger a new ice age that would reverse the current warming of our planet. As climate change continues to cause rising global temperatures that are busy melting the ice caps, scientists...

Ancient astronaut theorists take note as scientists trace ancestral home of all humans to...

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Mainstream scientists seem to have inadvertently given some support to the ancient astronaut theory again. Recently, we wrote about a "new" scientific discovery that unlocked the potential of gold atoms, with 2D gold nanosheets. Using layers of gold just two atoms in thickness, the researchers made a "landmark achievement." The...

Subaquatic ship graveyard may help solve the Biblical mystery of Noah’s Ark

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It's one of the most well-known stories from the Bible: Noah and his family were instructed by God to build an ark and load it with two of every animal. Noah did as he was instructed and the great flood came, destroying everything except Noah, his family, and the...

Ancient cuneiform tablets prove historically accurate in regards to possible threat to Earth

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Some 3,000 years ago, astrologers working for the king of the Assyrian empire kept a close eye on the skies, and what they found and recorded on cuneiform tablets can give us incredibly valuable insights into things such as solar flares and other cosmological happenings that are just as...

How did the last Woolly Mammoths die out on this Russian island near Alaska?

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When we think of woolly mammoths, we think of creatures that walked the Earth tens of thousands of years ago before the entire species became extinct due to the warming of the planet. But a new study shows that not all of them perished this early, and scientists are narrowing...

If You Travel Through A Black Hole, Where Do You Wind Up?

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Here's a hypothetical for you: You're given the opportunity to somehow stand before a black hole in space and find out where it might lead. Would you take the leap? And if you did manage to work up your courage, what exactly would happen when you entered that giant...

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