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Fossil forests in the freezer

South of the craggy limits of Patagonia, Africa and Tasmania, and beyond the piercing gales of the roaring forties and the furious fifties, lies Antarctica – the last great continent on Earth to be explored. Straddling the South Pole, it … Continue reading

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Mammoths in the freezer

As palaeontologists, we are used to relying on the preserved hard parts of extinct organisms – shells, bones, teeth and so on – to reconstruct their appearance and adaptations in life. The reconstruction of soft tissue relies upon our knowledge … Continue reading

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Old woman’s body found in freezer near Reggio Emilia

IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-3b0500f11415f02463fd8b336f238533.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Old woman’s body found in freezer near Reggio Emilia” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-3b0500f11415f02463fd8b336f238533.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, February 15 – Italian police working on an anonymous tip-off on Saturday found the body of an old woman in a … Continue reading

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