Check your tile countertop for fossils. A consumptive Homo erectus—or at least a piece of him—might be trapped there.
HOMO TUBERCULOSIS. A stippling of tiny pits (pointer) heralds a rare form of tuberculosis in this plaster cast of a skull fragment from a 500,000-year-old Homo erectus, claims one anthropologist.
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