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1ThePam
Edited: Sep 14, 2008, 8:55 am



This helmet along with some other exceedingly nifty stuff, was uncovered in a small gravesite in Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1054631/Greek-dig-unearths-secret...

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Also a huge prehistoric (Triassic) creature was uncovered in Antartica.

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"Its tooth-packed mouth, 2.75-foot-long head and 15-foot body help to explain how this beast, Kryostega collinsoni, was Antarctica's top known Triassic predator.

The animal resembled a modern crocodile but was actually a temnospondyl, a prehistoric amphibian that was an early relative of salamanders and frogs. Because of their odd mixture of characteristics, members of this group are sometimes nicknamed 'crocamanders' or 'frogodiles.'"

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/12/antarctica-amphibian.html