About 709,000 years ago, a group of ancient humans used stone tools to butcher a dead rhino on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The find means our hominin cousins reached the Philippines much earlier than we previously knew. Image: http://globalquiz.org
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A plant fossil that gathered dust in a museum drawer for a century is the oldest fossil of large plants ever found – and it suggests we need to rethink the plant family tree. Image: treegrow
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Air pollution levels are falling in the US – but not as rapidly as the US Environmental Protection Agency thinks they are. Image: faungg’s photos
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An ancient Swedish fort is beginning to relinquish a dark secret it has held for 1500 years – that its walls bore witness to a brutal massacre. The merciless attack was probably linked to the chaos that swept across northern Europe following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Image: Daniel Lindskog
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How did complex life survive when the Earth turned into a giant snowball hundreds of million years ago? A bizarre region of “dirty” Antarctic ice, discovered a century ago by British explorer Captain Scott’s team, might hold clues. Image: eliduke
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