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The evolution of choice and arguing about it
5+ hour, 27+ min ago (628+ words) When did our ability to communicate advance beyond grunting and gesturing? Clues to the genesis of our linguistic abilities may lie in extraordinary choices by ordinary hominins The question is when language emerged, evolving beyond animal modes of communication such…...
She Was Looking for Frogs. Then She Stumbled Upon a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Mystery in a Creek
13+ hour, 5+ min ago (475+ words) A routine frog habitat survey in a California creek revealed a massive fossil hiding half beneath the water. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
1+ day, 41+ min ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Geologists Searching for Copper in China Drilled 1,500 Feet Underground and Found a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...
Modern humans interbred with Neanderthals before they disappeared, and most people of non-African ancestry still carry roughly 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA today — meaning part of the human population we once thought we simply replaced never actually vanished
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (104+ words) The fossil record suggested modern humans simply wiped out their evolutionary cousins, but genetic evidence now reveals a messier, more intimate history of coexistence and interbreeding....
Ancient Fossil Carpel-Like Organs Push Back Flowering Plant Origins
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (83+ words) Bioengineer.org For now, the specimen rests in the type collection under catalogue number PB206132, available for scrutiny by other researchers. The open-access publication ensures that the images and reconstructions can be independently assessed, an important step given how consequential the…...
Massive Ice Age-era mastodon tooth found in California creek
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (269+ words) (KTLA) – What looked like a strange rock in a California creek turned out to be something much older and rarer. A scientist working in San Mateo County discovered an intact mastodon tooth during a field survey at a Midpeninsula Regional…...
A forearm bone has been found at the Denisov site for the first time
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (473+ words) In China, five Denisovan remains have been confirmed on the basis of ancient proteins, including the first known fragment of their radius. The discovery suggests that Denisovans lived in south-western China approximately 167,000–134,000 years ago. In the Bianfu Cave in the…...
Anemone, Sponge, Megalodon Tooth
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (48+ words) oceanexplorer.noaa.gov LIVE VIDEO: The 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration expedition is underway. Watch live dives to explore deep-sea habitats of American Samoa. NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration Download largest version (jpg, 590.9 KB) Stay connected to…...