A lab mistake in 2004 led researchers to think they had found the remains of an extinct breed of horse at Pompeii. It seems that the animal was actually a donkey related to the Somali wild ass.  

Exposure to sex hormones in the womb is thought to determine future finger length and adult behavior. If this is so, does the ratio between the lengths of fossilized index fingers compared to fossilized ring fingers indicate promiscuity among different hominin species? “Although finger rations provide some really exciting suggestions about hominin behavior, we do accept that the evidence is limited and to confirm these findings we really need more fossils,” said Emma Nelson of Liverpool University. 

Forensic experts have confirmed that Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried in a grave in Bucharest in 1989.  

A skeleton estimated to be several hundred years old and a cache of World War II firearms were discovered during the reconstruction of a fire-ravaged pub in Norfolk, England.  

Discovery News offers photographs of the mud-brick wall uncovered at Egypt’s Giza plateau. The wall once protected the Sphinx from desert winds and sands.  

Doctors at Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, used their CT scanner to examine 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies of a man, a bird of prey, and a human hand from the Science Museum of Minnesota. “There’s always the possibility we can learn something else,” said Ed Fleming, curator of archaeology at the museum.

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