Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans...
The cheekbone and upper jaw of an ancient hominin found in Sima del Elefante, Spain Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA. A fragmentary bone from a Spanish cave is the oldest...
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Ancient Frogs Survived Earth’s Greatest Mass Extinction Event by Not...
Of all the animals facing a major mass extinction event 252 million years ago, it is perhaps appropriate that frog-like creatures were able to bounce back. The amphibious nature of...
Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronze Age sheep
Yersinia pestis bacteria viewed with an electron microscope Connect Images/Alamy An ancient ancestor of the pathogen that would later cause the Black Death and other major pandemics has been identified...
This Ancient Culture Drove Nails Into Skulls. We May Finally...
Our ancient ancestors have done some interesting things to human bones over the years, but one example from the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula is a real puzzle. There, in multiple...
Mount Vesuvius turned this ancient brain into glass. Here’s how
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 is perhaps most famous for entombing the Roman city of Pompeii. But in nearby Herculaneum, also buried in the eruption, the preserved...
Ancient People May Have Thought UAPs Were Gleaming Ships in...
To have a view on aliens and whether or not they exist, you have to believe in outer space in general and other planets beyond our own. So, what does...
Destructive Forces of Ancient Glaciers May Have Given Complex Life...
Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from its star. From pole to equator, the...
Ancient beach on Mars discovered by China’s Zhurong Mars rover:...
Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy beaches. Data from China’s...
Ancient Mars wasn’t just wet. It was cold and wet
Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into the planet’s history reveal. Scientists have detected a possible ancient beach in Mars’...
Mysterious fast radio burst traced back to massive ‘cosmic graveyard’...
Astronomers have been forced to reassess the origins of mysterious, rapid radio wave blasts called “fast radio bursts” (FRBs). This rethink was brought about by an FRB first detected last...
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