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UFO hunter who has studied ‘alien’ mummy for over a decade claims remains are an ancient species of tiny, cave-dwelling human

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Chile’s mysterious, oblong-headed ‘Atacama skeleton’ may have once been a small class of terrestrial humanoid living in the high caves of the South American Andes, at least according to the man who has spent a decade studying the being.

This Spanish businessman and researcher who now owns the eerie, but tiny, skeletal mummy dropped his new theory on Spain’s Mitele TV network late last week. 

Sensational origin stories have trailed Chile’s ‘Atacama skeleton’ ever since the six-inch-long ‘alien’ mummy was

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Newfound fossil species of lamprey were flesh eaters

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Found in roughly 160-million-year-old rocks in North China, the Yanliao Biota is a diverse array of beautifully preserved fossils, including dinosaurs, pterosaurs and even early mammals. But it isn’t all fur and feathers. Paleontologists have now unearthed fossils of two surprisingly large ancient lamprey species, swimming menaces that latched onto and bored holes into their unsuspecting neighbors.

Modern parasitic lampreys’ funnel-shaped, toothy mouths tend to be adapted to consume blood or flesh. Based on the arrangement of teeth and other

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The 5 times humans almost went EXTINCT – as scientists reveal the date our species could finally be wiped out

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With eight billion people now walking the Earth, the thought of humans going extinct anytime soon seems rather unlikely.

Barring nuclear annihilation, being overrun by artificial intelligence or a catastrophic impact from space, of course.

But even if our population is booming today, it hasn’t always been that way.

That’s because there have been at least five occasions throughout history where the human race has been in danger of dying out, not least because of the eruption of a supervolcano

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Scientists suggest unearthed skull could belong to new species of ancient human | Science | News

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Scientists may have identified a new species of human after investigating a skull belonging to an ancient child.

A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution has attempted to shed light on the fossilised remains recovered from Hualongdong, China, in 2019 that did not appear to fit with any known human lineage.

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilised leg, skull and jawbone, with the latter two items proving the most puzzling.

They said the features exhibited by the skull and

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Have scientists discovered a new species of HUMAN? Ancient skull belonging to a child with no chin who lived 300,000 years ago suggests our family tree ‘needs another branch’

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Have scientists discovered a new species of HUMAN? Ancient skull belonging to a child with no chin who lived 300,000 years ago suggests our family tree ‘needs another branch’

  • A fossilised skill, jaw and leg bones were found in Hualongdong, China in 2019
  • Interestingly, researchers say the unknown species ‘did not possess a true chin’ 

By Sam Tonkin

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Scientists believe they may have identified a new species of human after finding

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Meet the ‘alien life here on Earth’: Scientists discover 12 new species of sea sponge resembling extraterrestrials, unicorns and a POLAR BEAR

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Meet the ‘alien life here on Earth’: Scientists discover 12 new species of sea sponge resembling extraterrestrials, unicorns and a POLAR BEAR

  • Experts have discovered 12 new species of sea sponge off Monterey, California
  • They have been named after a polar bear, a unicorn and one scientist’s partner 

By Sam Tonkin For Mailonline

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They may be most famous for inspiring the animated character SpongeBob SquarePants, who lives in a pineapple under

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Bureaucrats Recovered Only 3 Percent Of Endangered Species Under 50 Years Of Endangered Species Act

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Over the last 50 years, federal bureaucrats have managed to recover only three percent of endangered species, despite the expansive authority, powers, and funding granted to them by the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

According to a new report from the conservation nonprofit Property & Environment Research Center (PERC), the lead agencies implementing the ESA, NOAA Fisheries and the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), recovered only 57 out of the 1,732 domestic endangered species: or, 3.3%.

The success rate declined further

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Humans exploit about one-third of wild vertebrate species

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The aptly named resplendent quetzal is prized for its plumage. Golden poison frogs are popular creatures in the pet trade. Pangolin meat is considered a delicacy, and their scales are used in traditional medicine.

Those three animals are among the third of all wild vertebrate species that people eat, trade or otherwise use, a new study reveals.  Out of nearly 47,000 vertebrate species around the world, humans exploit about 14,600, researchers report June 29 in Communications Biology in a comprehensive

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We Made Wild Animals Sick. Should We Vaccinate Them Too?

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Every year, at the end of August, Travis Livieri drives into the sandy grasslands of South Dakota’s Conata Basin, where, armed with spotlights and syringes, he spends his nights scooping up subjects for a grand experiment they could not hope to understand. His quarry are the region’s black-footed ferrets, considered by many to be North America’s most endangered mammal. His goal is to save the animals from the existential bind that we have put them in.

Black-footed ferrets once dotted

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