The Heterobrachia was little affected by the end-Triassic mass extinction, possibly because of a flexible mode of feeding of the larvae, an adaptation to relatively warm temperatures, and a flexible attachment of the mantle that allowed for covering the shell. Credit: Mariel Ferrari, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)A set of investigators, one with Instituto Patagónico de...
Credit: Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty ImagesA study describes how scientists conducted the first successful DNA sequencing on old Egyptian mummies.Egyptologists, writers, scholars, and others, have suggested the race of the ancient Egyptians since at least the 1970s. Some today think they were sub-Saharan Africans. We can observe this interpretation portrayed in Michael Jackson's 1991...
Olduvai stone chopping tool, made from basalt, from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 1.8-2 million years old. British Museum (1934,1214.1). Credit: BabelStone / Wikimedia.Electronics, airplanes, internal combustion engines, and the wheel are the descendants of a far more rudimentary technology: stone tools. Early stone tools can seem simple. However, their creation represents a massive landmark in...
A group aboard a modern icebreaker will check the site with state-of-the-art underwater drones in hopes of finding the historic vessel.Crew members of the Endurance enjoy a quick game of soccer while on a three-year Imperial Trans-Antarctica Expedition in 1915. The 144-foot ship sank in the Anarctic Ocean that same year. Credit: Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty...
Credit: Grethe et al. 2022PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND--According to a statement released by Diamond Light Source, Eleanor Schofield of the Mary Rose Trust and Donna Arnold of the University of Kent utilized high-tech tools at Diamond Light Source to analyze bricks recuperated from the wreck of Mary Rose, King Henry VIII's wooden battleship that sank during...
The enormous stone jars may be linked to mysterious containers discovered in Laos.The first four jar sites were found by British archaeologists in Assam state in 1928. Expeditions to the region by a team of archaeologists since 2014 have discovered six more sites in Assam and neighboring Meghalaya state. Credit: Tilok ThakuriaArchaeologists have found hundreds...
Repudiate Factor is where the Humber estuary fulfills the North Sea. (Image debt: Mr. Nut/ Alamy Stock Photo).Archaeologists are closing in on a shed middle ages town often described as Yorkshire's "Atlantis.".Excavators are closer than ever to situating a shed medieval town sometimes described as Yorkshire's "Atlantis" beneath the waves.Additionally called Ravenser Odd, the...
Credit: WOODRUFF ET AL. (2022); CORBIN RAINBOLTPeculiar growths on dinosaur neckbones hint at old infectionIt takes much force to cough a loogie up a nearly 4-meter-long neck, but that is what one dinosaur had to do. The Guardian reports that paleontologists have discovered unusual nodules on the neck of a 150-million-year-old sauropod, proof of the...
People like these Baka hunter-gatherers once ranged well beyond their current homeland in Central Africa. Credit: CYRIL RUOSO/MINDEN PICTURESChildren's skeletons give genomes more than 3000 years oldCentral Africa is far too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive-- or so scientists assumed. Currently, the bones of four children buried thousands of years earlier...
Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikimedia CommonsPleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost live and eat well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later.Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the very first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost and subsequently thawed out and resuscitated in Petri...
