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Giant Scorpion Fossil Reveals a One-Meter Devonian Predator
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (250+ words) A fossil pincer assigned to Praearcturus gigas, with a claw comparable in size to an entire large living scorpion. (The Trustees of the Natural History Museum / University of Manchester) A clear comparative example is Eramoscorpius brucensis, which is a Silurian…...
Female Woolly Mammoths Were Preferred Targets for Ice Age Hunters
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (337+ words) Genomic sex identification of ancient woolly mammoths based on X- and Y-chromosome DNA ratios, revealing distinct male and female clusters. (Moots/Current Biology) “By comparing the genetic sex ratios of hundreds of mammoths from natural settings with those found in these…...
Tyrannosaurus rex "Gus" Shatters Records, Becoming Most Expensive Dinosaur Fossil Ever Sold
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (175+ words) "Gus" - A Mounted Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton. Late Cretaceou. (Mathew Sherman/Sotheby’s) Gus was unearthed in 2021 on a remote ranch in Harding County, South Dakota. The dinosaur takes its name from Gary "Gus" Licking, the late cattle rancher who owned the…...
40,000-Year-Old: The World's Oldest Boomerang Was Carved From Mammoth Ivory
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (248+ words) Location, entrance, and stratigraphy of Obłazowa Cave, Poland. Panel A shows the geographic location of the cave; Panel B shows the western and main cave entrances; Panel C illustrates the site's archaeological stratigraphy. (Talamo et al., PLOS ONE/CC BY…...
Earliest Americans Specialized in Megafauna Hunting from Alaska to South America
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (269+ words) A new and innovative scientific study on early native peoples of America has indicated that these early inhabitants were successful large game hunter-gatherers, and in fact most of their food consisted of the largest game available at any time across…...
Ice Age Britons Returned 500 Years Earlier Than Thought
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (254+ words) The research matters because Britain was still joined to the continent. Reindeer and horses were moving into expanding grazing grounds, and people could follow them across a landmass not yet cut off by the sea. It adds a new twist…...
Neanderthal Turtle Hunting: Shells Used as Tools in Central Europe
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (164+ words) "Our data provide the first evidence that Neanderthals also hunted and processed turtles north of the Alps, beyond the Mediterranean region," said Gaudzinski-Windheuser. Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, the…...
Scientists Say We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place for Human Origins
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (388+ words) A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago…...
Masripithecus
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (19+ words) Ancient Origins Scientists Say We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place for Human Origins Disclaimer - Terms of Publication...
The Luminous Migrants: The Blond, Blue-Eyed Peoples Who Transformed the Chalcolithic Levant
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (466+ words) Ancient Origins The Luminous Migrants: The Blond, Blue-Eyed Peoples Who Transformed the Chalcolithic Levant "From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor. They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same…...