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This incredible discovery tells a story of love that connects us all, 8,000 BC

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This incredible discovery tells a story of love that connects us all, 8,000 BC In 2018, scientists discovered a set of footprints that went on for 1.5 km as part of an excavation. These footprints were not made recently, but over 10,000 years ago.  Discovered in White Sands National Park in New Mexico, USA, 427 footprints were discovered. These prints are thought to have belonged to a young woman. However, a fascinating detail was discovered that the footprints sometimes varied in-depth. At various points of her journey, her right foot was sometimes deeper into the ground than her left foot and vice versa. It was then discovered that tiny footprints that are thought to have belonged to a three-year-old human were also found at some points alongside the woman's footprints. It is theorized that the uneven foot depth is due to the woman carrying her child.  The footprints, which date back to the late ice age along a dried-up lake, are not the only footprints discovered. Nearby, b...

Boy, 8, swallowed whole by crocodile before locals rip open its stomach

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On this day 5, march 2021, A Boy, 8, swallowed whole by crocodile before locals rip open its stomach An eight-year-old boy has been cut out of the stomach of a crocodile after he was swallowed whole in Indonesia.   Dimas Mulkan Saputra was fishing in a river with his father when he strayed from the shore in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Wednesday morning. A 26ft long crocodile then dragged Dimas away as the boy's father Subliansyah chased the reptile. Subliansyah punched the animal to try and make it release his son but the crocodile sank into the depths and disappeared. The animal swallowed Dimas whole without even chewing. The crocodile was found nearby on Thursday and Dimas's body was cut out fully intact but lifeless in the village of Muara Bengalon in Bengalon District. A local search and rescue agency official known as Oktavianto said the child's father jumped to help him but the reptile escaped. Oktavianto added: 'He chased the crocodile and hit it with bare han...