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Red amber from Kachin

Military now controls Myanmar’s scientifically important amber mines

30 August 2019

Hundreds of scientifically priceless fossils are extracted in horrendous conditions in Myanmar’s amber mines and smuggled over the border for sale in China
The cranium was discovered in Ethiopia

We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors

28 August 2019

A skull found in Ethiopia has been identified as belonging to Australopithecus anamensis, which lived 4 million years ago and may be one of our direct ancestors

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