A generalized map of the Sahara shows the location of the sample sites and the fossilized river courses. (Credit: Anne Osborne) A team led by the University of Bristol shows that wetter conditions reached a lot further north than previously thought, providing a wet ...
Archeologist Roger Wilson pulls out the clay amphora from its 1,500 year hiding place. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Roger Wilson) This summer, Prof. Roger Wilson led excavations at Kaukana, an ancient Roman village located near Punta Secca, a small town in the south-eastern province of ...
The Skeletons submerged at the Alit-Yam site. (Credit: Image courtesy of University College London) The new research, led by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Tel-Aviv University and published today in PLoS One, sheds light on how the TB bacterium has evolved over ...
John Lukacs, professor of anthropology, shows a 250,000-year-old "Kabwe skull" from Africa. The sex is unknown, but this specimen has 15 teeth still intact or partially present -- 12 of them have obvious damage from dental caries. (Credit: Jim Barlow) The conclusion follows a ...
Fossils showing ’migrating’ Cambrian arthropods. (Credit: Derek Siveter) Fossil evidence of collective behaviour is extremely rare. But what makes the find even more intriguing is that it indicates that such behaviour was occurring at the beginning of the ‘Cambrian explosion’ – a major event ...
Kirk and Blythe Williams from Duke University have discovered Diablomomys dalquesti, a new genus and species of primate that dates to 44-43 million years ago when tropical forests and active volcanoes covered west Texas. During the early part of the Eocene epoch, primates were common in the tropical forests that covered ...
The earliest known flying dinosaurs flew like the biplanes of early aviation. (Credit: Image courtesy of Texas Tech University) The drone, featuring a strange design of a rudder at the nose of the craft instead of the tail, would gather data from sights, sounds and ...
But an asteroid is the prime suspect only in the most recent of five mass extinctions, said USC earth scientist David Bottjer. The cataclysm 65 million years ago wiped out the dinosaurs. "The other four have not been resolvable to a rock falling out of the sky," Bottjer said. For example, Bottjer ...
The Greeks, for example, were fascinated with the historian Herodotus’ description of the ancient Issedonians chopping up their dead into a mixed grill and devouring them in a communal barbeque, something entirely contrary to the Greeks’ treatment of their own dead. In every social group throughout history, the disposal of the ...
The Y chromosome confers maleness and is passed, like surnames, from father to son. Scientists believe that a link could exist between a man’s surname and the type of Y chromosome he carries. (Credit: iStockphoto/Mark Evans) Doctoral research by Turi King has shown that ...