TEHRAN, Dec 18_Danish scientists have managed to extract a complete human DNA sample from a piece of birch pitch more than 5,000 years old, used as a kind of chewing gum, a study revealed Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Jun 29 -Paleontologists have determined that some groups of crocodiles were not the meat-eaters their descendants became. After a detailed analysis of ancient crocodile teeth, scientists concluded vegetarianism evolved among the distant cousins of modern crocodylians at least three different times.
TEHRAN, May 13 -By staring at the sky for over 200 hours, the Spitzer Space Telescope collected light that finally reached Earth after a 13-billion-year voyage through space.
TEHRAN, May 01 -Paleontologists in China have unearthed a 300,000-year-old human skull, illuminating the variation and continuity among early Asian hominins.The hominin fossil record in East Asia is fragmentary and scattered. As a result, researchers have struggled to accurately characterize the nature of human evolution in the region.
TEHRAN, Mar 16 -Researchers say the sea, first spotted by the Mariner 9 spacecraft, would have created the bedforms previously detected and some of the area explored during the Pathfinder mission.
TEHRAN, Feb 27 -By measuring fecal remains and climate data among ancient lake cores from Illinois' Horseshoe Lake, researchers were able to link climate change to the decline of Cahokia, a pre-Columbian Native American city located across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis.
TEHRAN, Feb 03 - More than a thousand antiquities which had been stolen from Iraq have been returned to the nation. They were handed over by Jordanian authorities who confiscated them from smugglers.
TEHRAN, Feb 02 -An ancient Mongolian skull thought to belong to the a unique species of Pleistocene hominin, dubbed Mongolanthropus, is actually the earliest evidence of modern humans in the region.
TEHRAN, October 07 - Ancient artifacts salvaged from Syria's war-torn cities were on display at Damascus Opera House, including two rare busts retrieved from Palmyra.
TEHRAN, July 13, YJC - A group of researchers have claimed that a recently unearthed, humanoid-shaped mummy is the latest evidence of alien life on Earth. The self-proclaimed paranormal researchers attended a press conference in Peru to argue their case. They presented a slide show of X-rays, depicting the mummified object. The alleged discovery involves a three-fingered 'mummified humanoid' with an elongated skull. It was unearthed in a cave in Peru, which dates back to more than 17 hundred years ago. Not everyone is convinced of the finding, however, with some suggesting that it can be a plaster cast.