Tag: Fossils
99-million-year-old snail fossilized in amber while giving birth
A well-preserved female land snail fossilized in Cretaceous amber shortly after the birth of her offspring was discovered in Myanmar. The discovery offers unprecedented...
School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to...
Cancer on a Paleo-diet? Ask someone who lived 1.7 million years...
Metatarsal (a) and (b) surface rendered models show medullary spongy bone infill and clear focalized cortical destruction near the periosteal margin; also evident on...
Before animals, evolution waited eons to inhale
Reinhard used computational modeling to track oceanic dissolved oxygen concentrations globally.Credit: Chris Reinhard / Georgia Tech
A couple of times in four billion years, evolution...
Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on...
These are 2,000-year-old personal hygiene sticks with remains of cloth, excavated from the latrine at Xuanquanzhi. Credit: Hui-Yuan Yeh. Reproduced from the Journal of Archaeological...
Neanderthals in Germany: First population peak, then sudden extinction
Neanderthal depiction (stock image). Neanderthals lived in the Middle Paleolithic, the middle period of the Old Stone Age. This period encompasses the time from...
Ancient ‘Deep Skull’ from Borneo full of surprises
Bones from the 37,000 year old Deep Skull from Niah Cave in Sarawak.Credit: Curnoe
A new study of the 37,000-year old remains of the "Deep...
Massive vertebrae sheds new light on Alamosaurus sanjuanensis
This is a drawing of the skeleton of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis compared to a 180cm (5ft 11") human. Based on reconstructed skeleton exhibited at the...
Ancient DNA analysis explains spread of domestic goats from fertile crescent...
Ancient goat bone used for DNA analyses (from Göytepe).Credit: Image courtesy of Nagoya University
Nagoya University-based researchers analyze ancient DNA of Neolithic domestic goats to...
New support for human evolution in grasslands
Humans are believed to have evolved in east Africa, as the landscape changed from forest to grassland. Here, children cross the Turkwel River in...
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia.
The work refutes an earlier landmark study that claimed...
