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Ancient DNA shows Ice Age humans targeted female mammoths
16+ min ago (641+ words) Excavation in Langmannersdorf in 2025. (Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences via SWNS) Cavemen targeted female mammoths, suggests new research. Analysis of ancient DNA reveals Ice Age humans preferred to hunt females of the now-extinct giant mammals. A study of DNA…...
City Life Org - New Gobi Fossil Rewrites a Chapter of Mammal Evolution
54+ min ago (415+ words) Tamirkhan balcarceli (skull and partial hindlimb). Nicole Wong/© AMNH The fossil described in the new study provides evidence to the contrary. “Molecular models based on living animals can predict the past, but fossils provide the evidence needed to test those…...
News - Ice Age Hunters Deliberately Targeted Female Woolly Mammoths
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (86+ words) News August 3, 2026 Digs & Discoveries July/August 2019 Digs & Discoveries May/June 2026 Digs & Discoveries May/June 2025 Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia How a trailblazing ruler pulled her realm back from the brink Is a Native American origin story embedded in Ohio’s colossal earthwork?...
Darwin’s Black Box at 30: The Evidence Wins!
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (438+ words) Given the intricacy of the molecular machinery of even the simplest cells, the lack of any observations on cell origin, except from other cells, and the lack of any apparent intermediate stages in the evolution of cells, the origin of…...
Brazoria County Library System blows past summer reading goal
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (94+ words) The Facts Children build a dinosaur at the Lake Jackson Library as part of the library’s summer program. ANGLETON — Brazoria County readers did more than meet the library system’s summer goal. They pushed past it by more than 824,000 minutes. The…...
Traces of two previously unknown ancestors found in human DNA
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (178+ words) Zamin.uz A new genetic study conducted by scientists has raised new questions about our understanding of human evolution. According to the study's findings, traces of two previously unknown ancient ancestors may have been preserved in modern human DNA. Experts…...
Fossil preserves the internal organs of a 245-million-year-old marine reptile
3+ hour, 40+ min ago (824+ words) Crocodiles and dinosaurs belong to a large reptile group called archosaurs. For a long time, the story of that group has been mostly a land story. A fossil from southern China now complicates that picture. The animal, called Austronaga minuta,…...
Danube dries up in heat: Skeleton of giant mammoth uncovered in Bulgaria
11+ hour, 29+ min ago (341+ words) On the banks of the Danube near the town of Ryahovo in Bulgaria, the remains of an ancient mammoth have resurfaced. The river, with water levels at record lows because of recent heatwaves, has revealed bones which, according to researchers…...
How and why moonlight, baboons, and the Egyptian god Thoth are closely connected
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (709+ words) Ancient Egyptians did something genuinely strange with one of their most important gods. They gave Thoth two completely different animal forms – a bird and a primate – when almost every other deity in their pantheon stuck to just one. New research…...
This Ichthyosaur Chomped a Pterosaur???Then Got Chomped by Something Bigger
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (140+ words) Sometimes you’re the predator, sometimes you’re the prey 9:00 AM CDT on August 3, 2026 It’s not often that you find the prehistoric food chain dramatically captured in a single fossil, but according to a new study published in the journal Gondwana Research,…...