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A Student Discovered His Father's Lost Notebooks'and Unlocked a 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Mystery
13+ hour, 12+ min ago (20+ words) A mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science....
Construction Workers Dug Beneath a High School'and Stumbled Upon 200+ Ancient Species
2+ week, 4+ day ago (566+ words) It's the entire ecosystem from an age that's gone." Most high schoolers only get to study fossils through textbooks, videos, and the occasional museum field trip. Students at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles got the stranger version: in…...
Scientists Discovered Remains of the Earliest Animals on Earth. They May Have Made a Big Mistake.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (246+ words) They looked like traces left behind by tiny creatures, but were most likely microbes. Strange forms of life emerged during the Ediacaran period. Creatures such as the flat, soft-bodied Dickinsonia and wormlike Spriggina (which crept along ancient seafloors) became some…...
A Scientist Says Humans Were Meant to Live So Much Longer'Then the Dinosaurs Ruined It
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (30+ words) A microbiologist named Jo'o Pedro de Magalh'es proposed the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, eliminating key longevity genes. de Magalh'es posits. .....
Scientists Discovered 700 Fossils That Rewrite What We Know About Life on Earth
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (177+ words) The presence of'ambulacrarians [acorn worms] in the Ediacaran period is really exciting," University of Oxford's Frankie Dunn, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. The discovery of ambulacrarian fossils in the Jiangchuan Biota also means that the…...
What Gives Fossilized Teeth Their Shiny Look?
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (359+ words) The science behind a dinosaur's shiny teeth is seriously fascinating. If you've ever picked up a shark's tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature's skull on display at a natural history museum, you may have noticed one characteristic…...
Scientists May Have Discovered the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Apes
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (192+ words) A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys. Before Neanderthals and Denisovans, before Homo erectus, before Lucy and other australopiths, who was the ancestor that gave rise to human…...
Entire Human Populations Vanished 3, 000 Years Ago. Scientists Figured Out Where They Went.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (291+ words) The population drop opened the door for outsiders to repopulate with new demographics and cultures. According to the new research, construction of these tombs abruptly "ceased across continental northwestern Europe" at the end of the fourth millennium B. C. E. The break in…...
The Paleo Diet Never Existed. Scientists Found What Early Humans Were Really Eating.
3+ mon, 6+ hour ago (182+ words) Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more well-rounded diet to survive. Paleo. Carnivore. Caveman. Whatever term you prefer to use for it, some of the most popular…...
Scientists Analyzed 41, 000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones'And Reached a Horrifying Conclusion
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (439+ words) Signs of de-fleshing on bones found in a Belgian cave suggest that one group of Neanderthals cannibalized another. Some things are so unspeakable that they're considered taboo in nearly every human culture, even in the context of ancient history. Cannibalism…...