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Denisovan remains dating back up to 167,000 years found in China
8+ hour, 6+ min ago (354+ words) Denisovan remains dating back 134,000 to 167,000 years have been discovered in Bianfu Cave in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. Two studies published in the journal Nature on September 9 also describe the stone tools and way of life of this group of…...
Cave fossils in China reveal lives of mysterious human relatives
13+ hour, 14+ min ago (912+ words) Estimated read time: 7-8 minutes Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way of life. The new haul — which includes four teeth,…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
5+ hour, 1+ 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…...
The evolution of choice and arguing about it
10+ hour, 26+ 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…...
Dinosaurs, Meet Carl Sagan at the End of Oak Street
11+ hour, 16+ min ago (545+ words) This review by Bethel McGrew is republished from Science and Culture Today. The End of Oak Street, out digitally on September 15, should have been a box office hit on paper. Just look at the trailer. It’s an ’80s throwback movie! It…...
Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco
17+ hour, 50+ min ago (266+ 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... Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco Brigid Lynch was…...
She Was Looking for Frogs. Then She Stumbled Upon a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Mystery in a Creek
18+ hour, 4+ 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…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
1+ day, 20+ min ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
1+ day, 10+ 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, 17+ 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…...