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A rare pre-historic fossil, possibly 35 to 40 million years old, has been stolen from a village in Meghalaya, leaving people in shock and outraged. The fossil was discovered in May last year in the state’s Tolegre village in South Garo Hills. The Geological Survey of India (GSI) had examined the site last year and…
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A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her nickname ‘Lucy’, was unearthed by researchers 50 years ago this month in the Afar region of Ethiopia. It eventually went on to transform scientists’ understanding of human evolution. Opening a new chapter in human history, the discovery by Don Johanson, an American palaeontologist and graduate student…
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Coelacanths are deep-sea fish up to two metres in length which were believed to have been extinct. Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct. In new research published in Nature…
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