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A skeleton under Petra’s Treasury was found gripping a chalice that looks like the Holy Grail

Archaeologists working beneath one of the most photographed ancient structures on Earth have pulled a striking image from the ...

Scientists Built the First 3D Vaquita Skeleton — Here’s Why It Matters

With fewer than 10 individuals left alive and captive breeding off the table, the vaquita has almost no margin for error. A ...
NBC Olympics

How does Olympic skeleton work?

Learn how Olympic skeleton competition works — from the structure of heats and timing rules to how medal winners are ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart

Researchers performed DNA testing on the bones highlighted in this image. Paumen, Wargnies and Demory / Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles / Veselka et al. Back in the 1970s, when archaeologists excavated ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Jamestown Skeleton is Unearthed, but Only Time—and Science—Will Reveal His True Identity

Scientists don full-body suits to minimize contamination and disturbance of the precious artifacts uncovered in the 1617 church in Jamestown, Virginia, where a new skeleton awaits identification.