While it's rarely news when someone gets a filling, paleoantologists are quite excited this week to report what may be one of the world's oldest fillings-made of beeswax, in a jaw recovered from a cave near Trieste, Italy. The specimen has been stored at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy for the past century, but it has only been recently that the beeswax filling has been noticed.

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