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AncientPages.com - The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One does not need to be an art expert to recognize the value of the magnificent Golden Tree of Lucignano. Created by goldsmith

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The steamship Africa vanished without a trace on a stormy October night in 1895. For 128 years, many wondered what had happened to

AncientPages.com - When we think of Neanderthals, we often imagine these distant ancestors of ours to be rather brutish, dying at a young age and ultimately becoming extinct.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolved in animals – including

AncientPages.com - Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia,

Conny Waters - Ancient Pages.com -  Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With "transitional" traits that

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have opened an Etruscan tomb that has remained sealed for about 2,600 years. The double-chambered tomb located in the Osteria necropolis in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The story of the unique Late Bronze Age logboat started many years ago. It has taken scientists and other experts many years to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working in the western part of Racibórz, called Studzienna, Poland, have unearthed stone tools that are 130,000 years old, or possibly even

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The vast necropolis of Pontecagnano in the province of Salerno, Italy, contains almost 10,000 burials dating from 3000 B.C. to the third century

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  In a twist in the ancient human story, emerging evidence suggests that we may have worn shoes as early as the Middle Stone

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have used declassified spy satellite imagery from the 1960s and 70s to reevaluate one of the first aerial archaeology surveys ever, revealing

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Located on Mount Carmel in northern Israel, the prehistoric Kebara Cave is a tremendous paleoanthropological and archaeological site. Evidence shows that the cave