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Scientist claims this 100-million-year-old creature found in Amber, once lived inside dinosaurs

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Scientist claims this 100-million-year-old creature found in Amber, once lived inside dinosaurs

NEW DELHI: Chinese researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper claiming to have found a prehistoric tapeworm partially intact inside a sample of 100-million-year-old mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber in Myanmar. According to the scientists, the discovery of a tapeworm from this era is extremely uncommon … Read more

Ornamental objects worn as piercings: 11,000 years old burials reveal stone-age body piercings

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Ornamental objects worn as piercings: 11,000 years old burials reveal stone-age body piercings

NEW DELHI: Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery that sheds light on the ancient practice of body piercing. They have found evidence of prehistoric body piercing in human burials that date back around 11,000 years. The findings were recently published in the journal Antiquity.The team of researchers conducted their study at the Neolithic site of … Read more