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Wimpy emporer penguins have nothing on their ice age brethren (Credit: ThinkStock)

Scientists Discover Fossils of Massive Ancient Penguins 

Antarctica recently yielded an extinct species of penguins that would have towered above the vast majority of humans. Shudder.

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High on History: The Mammoth of a Find that Subverted Every Human Origin Story

A fateful French excavation in the 1840s showed our ancestors were a lot more ancient than previously thought.

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San Francisco Skeleton May Hold Answers to Life in the Bay Area – Before there was a Bay

Industrialization = construction work = skeletons!

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