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Engravings rewrite human history

A shell found on Java in the late 1800s was recently found to bear markings that seem to have been carved intentionally half a million years ago. The photograph is about 15 millimetres wide. Credit: Wim Lustenhouwer/VU University Amsterdam.
Scientists have found engravings on a 400,000 year-old fossilised shell from Java. It is the oldest known example of ancient humans deliberately creating pattern. Before [...]

Out of India

An artist's depiction of Cambaytherium thewissi. Credit: Elaine Kasmer
Fossils just found in India but dating from when it was an island belong to an ancestor of modern horses and rhinos. A team of US and Indian researchers found fossils from [...]

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