5+ hour, 35+ min ago  (208+ words) The study has already stirred attention beyond academic circles, with Bulgaria's national news agency BTA highlighting the find as potential evidence that the "earliest bipedal hominins lived in the Balkans." At the same time, the authors stress that the fossil…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (549+ words) A pair of ancient Egyptian mummies have just delivered a remarkably modern message: back pain is nothing new. Using high-resolution CT imaging, radiologists at Keck Medicine of USC have created detailed 3D digital models of two priests who lived more than…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (212+ words) The case comes from Grotta del Romito, a limestone cave near Papasidero in Calabria, where two individuals were buried together in an embrace. New genetic analysis shows the pair were both female and closely related - most likely mother and daughter…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (346+ words) The Rhynie chert is famous for capturing a whole early land ecosystem in exceptional detail, making it ideal for side-by-side comparisons of different organisms preserved under similar conditions. In a National Museums Scotland announcement, researchers describe'Prototaxites'as "life, but not as…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (498+ words) The fossil (catalogued as MLP-3000) was recovered from the Mille-Logya research area, a site excavated since 2012 by a team led by paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged. As Alemseged notes in the University of Chicago release, the Afar has produced abundant'Australopithecus'and'Homo'fossils, so Paranthropus…...