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Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 10:35 AM PST

A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study.

Humans reached remote North Atlantic islands centuries earlier than thought

Posted: 16 Dec 2021 11:59 AM PST

New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled there around 500 AD -- some 350 years before the Vikings, who up until recently have been thought to have been the first human inhabitants. The settlers may have been Celts who crossed rough, unexplored seas from what are now Scotland or Ireland.