Remarkable Discovery of 1 Billion-Year-Old Green Seaweed Micro-Fossils in China
Virginia Tech paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the…
Archaeology
Human Populations Survived a Volcanic Super-Eruption 74,000 Years Ago – 5,000 Times Larger Than Mount St. Helen’s
New archaeological work supports the hypothesis that human populations were present in India by 80,000 years ago and that they survived one of the largest…
Dead in Unmarked Graves Identified by Combining Genetics With Genealogy
In Quebec, gravestones did not come into common use until the second half of the 19th century, so historical cemeteries contain many unmarked graves. Inspired…
Paleontologists Find Evidence of Dog Domestication During Last Ice Age – 28,500 Years Ago
Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from a 28,500-year-old fossil site in the Czech Republic provides supporting evidence for two groups of canids – one dog-like and…
Earliest Interbreeding Between Ancient Human Populations Discovered – Evolutionary Puzzle Solved
Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His…
Mystery Surrounding Dinosaur Footprints on a Cave Ceiling Finally Solved
The dinosaur in the cupboard under the stairs. The mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on a cave ceiling in Central Queensland has been solved after more…
Unraveling the Mystery of Neanderthal Death Rites – Discovery at ‘Flower Burial’ Site Offers “Unparalleled Opportunity”
The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 years has been unearthed at one of the most important sites…
The ‘Firewalkers’ of Karoo: Dinosaurs Left Tracks in a ‘Land of Fire’ 183 Million Years Ago
Several groups of reptiles persisted in Jurassic Africa even as volcanism ruined their habitat. In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that…
9,900-Year-Old Skeleton Discovered in Submerged Mexican Cave Has a Distinctive Skull
‘Chan Hol 3,’ like other Tulum cave skeletons, has tooth cavities and a distinctive skull compared to other early American settlers. A new skeleton discovered…
The Vikings Feared a Climate Catastrophe – So They Erected a Runestone With 9 Riddles
Several passages on the Rök stone – the world’s most famous Viking Age runic monument – suggest that the inscription is about battles and for…
Ancient Skulls Reveal Early North Americans More Diverse Than Previously Believed
Four late Pleistocene-early Holocene skulls from Tulum in Mexico show surprising diversity. Ancient skulls from the cave systems at Tulum, Mexico suggest that the earliest…
How Ancient Poop Debunked Myth of Native American Lost Civilization
New study debunks myth of Cahokia’s Native American lost civilization: ancient poop levels point to repopulation of iconic pre-Columbian metropolis. A University of California, Berkeley,…
Pacific Banana Mystery Solved With Microscopic Particles From 3,000-Year-Old Teeth
Humans began transporting and growing banana in Vanuatu 3000 years ago, a University of Otago scientist has discovered. The discovery is the earliest evidence of…
Mystifying Puzzle of Early Neolithic House Orientations Finally Solved
Human behavior is influenced by many things, most of which remain unconscious to us. One of these is a phenomenon known among perception psychologists as…
Previously Dismissed As Myths, New Study Boosts Credibility of Columbus’ Cannibal Claims
Christopher Columbus’ accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men – stories long dismissed as myths. But…
Researchers Discover Walruses Were Involved in the Mysterious Disappearance of Greenland’s Norse Colonies
Over-Hunting Walruses Contributed to the Collapse of Norse Greenland The mysterious disappearance of Greenland’s Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down…
Growing Up Tyrannosaurus Rex: Researchers Learn More About Teen-Age T.Rex
A study of two juvenile T.rex skeletons show how the large predator grew up. Without a doubt, Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous dinosaur in…
Medieval England Birch Bark Tar Usage Revealed in New Archaeological Discoveries
Scientists from the University of Bristol and the British Museum, in collaboration with Oxford Archaeology East and Canterbury Archaeological Trust, have, for the first time,…