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Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

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Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

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An Australian fossil reveals the first lamniform shark, measuring 20 feet long and living 15 million years earlier than believed.

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