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More than 200 years ago, France’s King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king’s blood, then stored the handkerchief in a gourd. Now scientists have confirmed that a squash emblazoned with figures from the French Revolution indeed contains the dried blood of the executed king. Scientists matched DNA from the blood with DNA from [...] Skulls from flat faced early humans found in ‘cradle of life’ near Lake Turkana in Kenya Scientists have discovered two new species of early human which lived alongside our direct ancestor two million years ago, before coming to an evolutionary ‘dead end’. The revelation is based on three new fossils unearthed between 2007 and 2009 from a site near Lake Turkana [...] Scientists have managed to re-create the appearance of a previously unknown fossil – a spiky creature thought to be the ultimate ancestor of the modern-day squid and octopus. The Austria National History Museum team used 3D scanning technology to unearth the fossil of ‘Dissimilites intermedius’ a layer at a time, and then created a video of how the creature lived and moved. The ammonite was discovered in sediment which formed at the [...] The great-great-great grandfather of Elizabeth Warren – who has long claimed to be part Native American – was not married to a Cherokee but actually rounded them up for the Trail of Tears, it has been claimed. But the Senate hopeful has dismissed the embarrassing reports as ‘politics as usual’, and has brushed off calls for her to prove she did not use her questionable heritage to further her law career. The [...] Thankfully, the fleas – found in Inner Mongolia, and analysed by experts at Oregon State University – seem not to be an ancestor’s flea, but instead a separate breed of monster that has since died out What kind of insect would have dared to crawl over the bodies of dinosaurs, plunging its proboscis between their scales to drink blood? Answer: a flea-like insect 10 times the size of ones today, with a [...] Speaking to a reporter on a local news station in Boston, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts cited her ancestor’s “high cheekbones” (quoting an aunt) as evidence of her Native American heritage:
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