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Churcampa cave paintings
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Ancient cave paintings found in central Peru The president of the Cave Art Peruvian Association, Gori Echevarria reported on Thursday the finding of cave paintings depicting humans, animals and geometric figures (circa 8-12,000 years old) in the province of Churcampa, located in the country'...
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Penkhull Iron Age Fort
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A sign celebrating a village's heritage is to be put up next week. Penkhull Residents' Association will place the sign at the junction of Gresty Street and Honeywall in Penkhull. It will mark the location of the entrance to the former Iron Age Fort and the ancient Domesday Village that once capped the...
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Istanbul
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Istanbul, historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople is the largest city in Turkey and 3rd largest city proper in the world with a population of 13 million, also making it the largest metropolitan city proper in Europe and the second largest metropolitan area in Europe by population. Rece...
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New Jersey Blue Hole
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The Blue Hole is located in the Pinelands of Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey and Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. It is a clear blue body of water situated in the middle of a dense forest, with many similar such lakes in it's immediate vicinity. The water has warm and cold sp...
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Sphagnum palustre
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Moss Has Cloned Itself for 50,000 Years A moss spreading throughout the Hawaiian Islands (map) appears to be an ancient clone that has copied itself for some 50,000 years - and may be one of the oldest multicellular organisms on Earth, a new study suggests. The peat moss Sphagnum palustre is found thr...
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Mokele-mbembe
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The hunt for Mokele-mbembe: Congo's Loch Ness Monster The search for Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is world famous. Far less well-known is the hunt for a similar creature, Mokele-mbembe, which is reputed to live in the remote north of Congo-Brazzaville. But how strong is the evidence? [url=http:/...
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Sha'er Lake coal reserve
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Asia's largest coal reserve discovered in Xinjiang China has reportedly discovered an 89.2 billion tonne coal reserve at Sha'er Lake in northwest Xinjiang Uygur, in a find that is being termed the largest in Asia. The new find is expected to be slightly bigger than Inner Mongolia, currently China'...
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Hongjiannao lake
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China's largest desert lake may vanish in 10 years China's largest desert lake is shrinking as a result of climate change and human activities and it could vanish in just a decade, officials estimate. Hongjiannao lake, sandwiched between the Maowusu desert in Shaanxi province and the Erdos platea...
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Powys fossils
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Powys fossils 'shed new light' on ocean community evolution Scientists believe they have made a remarkable discovery of fossils said to be more than 450 million years old in a disused Powys quarry. They think they are of a kind never before discovered. The well-preserved organisms from the Ordovic...
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Thunderbird
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The Thunderbird is a legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. It is considered a "supernatural" bird of power and strength. It is especially important, and richly depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Co...
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Griffin
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The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist, proposes that the griffin was an ancient misconception derived from the fossilised remains of the Protoceratops found in gold mines in the Alta...
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Cryptozoology
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Loch Ness has its monster. Does San Antonio have one, too? Strange sightings of a huge flying creature have been reported as recently as six months ago. Is it a monster or myth? Guadalupe Cantu III was busy working his newspaper route, but he says the big news of that day 10 years ago flew right over his c...
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Kagbeni caves
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3,000 year-old human remains uncovered in Nepal What could well be compared to Shangri-La as envisioned by British author James Hilton in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, recent findings of human history dating back to over 3,000 years in the caves of Upper Mustang have unravelled a significant portio...
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Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa
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Title: Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behaviour and Dispersal Authors: Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, Rex F. Galbraith, Hilary J. Deacon, Rainer Grün, Alex Mackay, Peter Mitchell, Ralf Vogelsang, Lyn Wadley The expansion of modern human populatio...
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Anomalocaridid
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Scientists Discover Fossil of Giant Ancient Sea Predator Paleontologists have discovered that a group of remarkable ancient sea creatures existed for much longer and grew to much larger sizes than previously thought, thanks to extraordinarily well-preserved fossils discovered in Morocco. T...
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