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Scientists find a pair of unlucky rats that were mummified in tar 650 years ago… and think they might unlock the secrets of the Black Death

Technology
Laura Adams

Two rodents have been unearthed by archaeologists in Estonia Scientists studying preserved rats which were mummified in tar have claimed that they ...

Discovery of 12,000-year-old preserved human brains could change what we know about the organ

Health
Sarah Carter

Many of the oldest, best-preserved brains were found buried in mass graves Scientists don’t understand why they were preserved by this specific ...

It’s a dupe-lodocus! Incredibly well preserved skin tissue on ‘important’ fossil discovered in the Alps in 1931 turns out to be FAKE

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The skin tissue on the ‘important’ fossil was thought to be 280 million years old It has been discovered that it is ...