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Grain-sized fossils have solved a 113-million-year-old mystery, linking volcanic carbon dioxide to one of the ocean’s largest plankton extinctions
9+ hour, 16+ min ago (530+ words) Tiny fossils have helped scientists crack a Cretaceous cold case. Using chemical signals preserved in microscopic shells, Northwestern University researchers found strong evidence that ocean acidification helped trigger one of the biggest extinction events in the history of planktic foraminifera,…...
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA | Sci.News
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (437+ words) New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with two mysterious ‘ghost’ lineages: one in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, another in Eurasia over 1.7 million years ago....
Did Ancient Humans Prefer Hunting Female Mammoths?
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (269+ words) Multiple lines of evidence point to Late Paleolithic human harvest of mammoths—from embedded stone projectile points to cut marks and fractures on mammoth bones associated with human settlements. Not to mention, human bone isotopes reveal mammoth meat in Paleolithic…...
Humans May Have Hunted Female Mammoths More Than Males, Researchers Say
7+ hour, 28+ min ago (263+ words) A study published in Current Biology made a couple of fascinating discoveries about the woolly mammoth, the furry, snow-dwelling elephant ancestor that early humans boldly assumed they could kill and eat, and then did. Researchers analyzed DNA from more than 500 mammoth…...
Scientists Found a Fossilized Food Chain From 100 Million Years Ago
7+ hour, 28+ min ago (369+ words) Rarely does the fossil record provide us with such startling evidence of extremely cool events that we wish we could’ve seen in person, but you’re lucky that these incredibly awesome moments are somehow frozen in time. That seems like what…...
The Web Forms One: The Mystery of the Demon Spider’s Birth Part 11
12+ hour, 36+ min ago (43+ words) There’s a chill in the air as the day makes way for the night. The sky has turned a wave of orange and red as Kumo opens her …...
A Velociraptor-Based Digital Forensics Investigation
14+ hour, 13+ min ago (781+ words) This write-up documents a controlled digital-forensics lab investigation using Velociraptor. The goal is not to provide a list of final answers …...
7 Common Mistakes in Species Distribution Models or Ecological Niche Models and How to Fix Them
14+ hour, 5+ min ago (538+ words) Today, species distribution data (from GBIF, iNaturalist), climate rasters (e.g., WorldClim), or any …...
When scientists first uncovered the ancient mummies of western China, their European-looking faces and fair hair suggested they were travelers who had wandered east from Europe — but their DNA told a stranger story: they were a local people who had lived there, isolated, for thousands of years
18+ hour, 39+ min ago (284+ words) Her eyelashes are still there. So is the flaxen hair, the tasselled white wool cloak, the felt hat and the fur-lined boots, on a woman who lay in a...
Scientists Discover a Lost Himalayan Population Hidden in 1,500-Year-Old DNA From a Remote Mountain Cave
15+ hour, 29+ min ago (382+ words) A cave high in the Himalayas has preserved traces of an unknown past. Scientists are now studying the evidence to understand the people who once lived in this extreme environment. The cave remains studied by scientists came from 10 individuals excavated…...