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21 Nov 2009
In 1822, Mary Ann Mantell of Sussex, England became the first person in history to discover a dinosaur fossil while correctly identifying it as something that was part of a large reptile. However, her husband Dr. Gideon Mantell took credit for the discovery and identified the teeth that she found as part of an Iguanodon.
Panspermia Theory is the theory that life on primordial Earth was 'seeded' by microbes from outer space.
The Chauvet caves in Southern France were discovered in 1994 and have the most ancient cave paintings in the world. These are 30,000 years old and include images of animals such as owls, panthers and hyenas, not seen before on cave walls.
The now extinct woolly mammoth of Northern Europe and Russia have been found in ever increasing numbers deep frozen in remarkable condition. Some of these bodies flesh, many of which have lain undisturbed for tens of thousands of years, are still said to be edible!
When the pharaohs' tombs were opened in Egypt early in the nineteenth century, not only human mummies were found but also those of sacred animals such as cats and ibises
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