Excavation

Africa’s oldest known dinosaur found in 230-million-year-old fossil

“We never expected to find such a complete and well-preserved dinosaur skeleton,” said Christopher Griffin, one of the excavation members. Source: Murphy Allen/Virginia Tech. An international team of palaeontologists have discovered and named Africa’s oldest known dinosaur that was found in Zimbabwe. The skeleton of the oldest dinosaur ever discovered in Africa, named Mbiresaurus raathi,…

Vampire burial

Woman buried as a vampire found by archaeologists in Poland

The woman had a protruding front tooth which may have led superstitious neighbours to suspect it was a vampire fang. Source: Mirosław Blicharski/Aleksander Poznań, Nicolaus Copernicus University. A skeleton of a woman was found buried with a sickle around her neck, indicating people thought she was a vampire. Archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University made the…