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‘Prehistoric Pompeii’ Reveals 515 Million-Year-Old Anatomy of Sea Insects in Pristine 3D | CNN

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what is now Morocco produced some of the most complete specimens ever found of trilobites, insect-like marine creatures, revealing … Read more

A million-year-old skull found in China could be a ‘Dragon Man’

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A mysterious ancient hominid skull found in China may have been the love child of two species, according to researchers. They believe the 900,000-year-old individual was a hybrid – part us, Homo sapien, and part Homo longi, a long-lost species known as the ‘Dragon Man’. The skull, dubbed ‘the Yunxian Man’ after the Yunyang district … Read more