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A man was struck by a stone projectile 12,000 years ago, survived for months, and his skeleton has just told the whole story
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (825+ words) Archaeologists working in a cave in northern Vietnam have identified what they describe as the oldest known case of one ... [A man was struck by a stone projectile 12,000 years ago, survived for months, and his skeleton has just told the…...
84-Million-Year-Old Horned-Dinosaur Fossils Rewrite Europe’s Prehistoric Record
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (428+ words) Learn how fossil evidence shows that ceratopsians lived across Europe during the Late Cretaceous, challenging long-held assumptions about where horned dinosaurs evolved. Horned dinosaurs lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous, despite being thought largely absent from the continent's fossil…...
The Age of Fishes began with mass death
6+ hour, 44+ min ago (870+ words) The Age of Fishes began with mass death'EurekAlert! A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction event…...
Mass Extinction 445 Million Years Ago Paved the Way for Jawed Fishes to Take Over
6+ hour, 44+ min ago (600+ words) Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on the planet. Past mass extinctions, as devastating as they are, have shaped the vast biodiversity of today's Earth…...
Homo erectus wasn't the first human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago, fossils suggest
8+ hour, 56+ min ago (505+ words) A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago. Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely…...
Early Human Ancestor Found in Morocco Dates Back 700,000 Years May Be Major Missing Link
9+ hour, 14+ min ago (595+ words) Remains of an early human ancestor from a critically important period in our evolutionary history have been found in Morocco. Dated back 700,000 years using precise geo-magnetic methods, the assemblage of jawbones and teeth may come from the epoch during which…...
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon
9+ hour, 47+ min ago (464+ words) Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the moment they encountered this snake in the wild. In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a newfound anaconda species in the…...
Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright — and might even be a human ancestor
10+ hour, 34+ min ago (600+ words) The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone is "beyond convincing" evidence this ape was bipedal. The discovery of a never-before-seen bump on the leg bone…...
New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion
11+ hour, 13+ min ago (760+ words) The patterns of disparity observed during the Cambrian pose two unresolved questions. First, what evolutionary process produced the gaps between the morphologies of major clades? Second, why have the morphological boundaries of these body plans remained relatively stable over the…...
Fossils Discovered in Morocco Could Reveal Humanity’s True Origins
11+ hour, 29+ min ago (368+ words) Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. A new study published in Nature reinforces the idea that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. This is based on a set of fossils unearthed in a Moroccan cave that date to…...