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December 24, 2024
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Dec. 18, 2024 While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, ...
Dec. 16, 2024 Analysis of the remains of at least 37 individuals from Early Bronze Age England finds they were killed, butchered, and probably consumed before being thrown down a 15m-deep shaft. It is the largest-scale example of interpersonal violence from ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern human genomes to date. The genomes were recovered ...
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Dec. 20, 2024 Investigations into precipitation patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation, such as the North Atlantic jet ...
Dec. 20, 2024 At a Neolithic settlement on the Danish island Funen dating back 5,500 years, archaeologists have discovered both grinding stones and grains from ...
Dec. 19, 2024 A new study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur. Joined by its newly discovered relatives, Pterodactylus's 'family' now encompasses tiny flaplings, a host of ...
Dec. 19, 2024 Scientists have successfully identified a previously unknown species to Southern California from fossilized seeds, revealing a drought-fueled dance ...
Dec. 19, 2024 Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...
Dec. 18, 2024 A fragment of 'lost' music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago. Scholars have been investigating the ...
Dec. 17, 2024 Researchers analyzed radioisotopes in layers of fossilized volcanic ash. Decay of uranium to lead within tiny crystals enabled scientists to precisely pinpoint dates for certain events. They ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Researchers have uncovered in anglerfish a specialized motor neuron population for the first dorsal fin used for 'fishing'. When the first dorsal fin ...
Dec. 13, 2024 Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...
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Dec. 12, 2024 A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. The work has revealed significant effects on both downstream (44% decrease in water flow) and upstream (17% flow increase) rivers, ...
Dec. 11, 2024 A new study sheds light on the lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine. Researchers present the first detailed bioarchaeological analyses of human diets from this area ...
Dec. 11, 2024 How can we explain the morphological diversity of living organisms? Although genetics is the answer that typically springs to mind, it is not the only explanation. By combining observations of ...
Dec. 11, 2024 A new study estimates that more than 9000 insects and other native invertebrates have become extinct in Australia since European arrival in 1788 and between 1-3 additional species become extinct ...
Dec. 11, 2024 A groundbreaking study has shed light on how lizards and snakes -- the most diverse group of land vertebrates with nearly 12,000 species -- have evolved remarkably varied jaw shapes, driving their ...
Dec. 10, 2024 Geoscientists have created a new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages. It reveals that the early Antarctic ice sheet melted more rapidly than previously ...
Dec. 9, 2024 A cave in Galilee, Israel, has yielded evidence for ritualistic gathering 35,000 years ago, the earliest on the Asian ...
Dec. 9, 2024 The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. Archaeologists analyzed ship logs, ...
Dec. 6, 2024 A researcher has uncovered evidence of intestinal parasites in a 500-year-old latrine from Bruges, Belgium, and while the finding may induce queasiness in some, it is expected to provide important ...
Dec. 6, 2024 By decoding the DNA of the beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta), a native plant that thrives in British Columbia, a team of multidisciplinary scientists is providing new insight into how ancestral ...
Dec. 5, 2024 Research has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaur stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East Sussex 135 million years ...
Dec. 5, 2024 A research team has made exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period, 7,000 years ago. The well organic preservation of the remains of the Cave of Los Murcielagos ...
Dec. 5, 2024 A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ...
Dec. 5, 2024 Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's most important food ...
Dec. 4, 2024 Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that ancient Americans relied primarily on mammoth and other large animals for food. Their research sheds new light on both the rapid expansion of ...
Dec. 4, 2024 A new study sheds light on how long humans in the Americas have had relationships with the ancestors of today's dogs -- and asks an 'existential question': What is a ...
Dec. 4, 2024 A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands ...
Dec. 3, 2024 From the RMS Titanic to the SS Endurance, shipwrecks offer valuable -- yet swiftly deteriorating -- windows into the past. Conservators slowly dry marine wooden artifacts to preserve them but doing ...
Dec. 2, 2024 Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an 'extraordinary' ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A groundbreaking study sheds light on the extraordinary evolution of anglerfish, a group of deep-sea dwellers whose bizarre adaptations have captivated scientists and the public alike. The research ...
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Unique Insights Into Lives of People Who Lived Over 5,600 Years Ago Near Kosenivka, Ukraine
- Biological Diversity Is Not Just the Result of Genes
- Australia's Extinction Tally Is Worse Than We Thought
- New Research Unlocks Jaw-Dropping Evolution of Lizards and Snakes
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
- Earliest Deep-Cave Ritual Compound in Southwest Asia Discovered
- Bad Weather Led Dutch Ship Into Western Australian Coast
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Getting to the Bottom of Things: Latrine Findings Help Researcher Trace the Movement of People and Disease
- Genetic Study of Native Hazelnut Challenges Misconceptions About How Ancient Indigenous Peoples Used the Land
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Tyrannosaur Teeth Discovered in Bexhill-on-Sea, England
- Iberian Neolithic Societies Had a Deep Knowledge of Archery Techniques and Materials
- Chimpanzees Perform the Same Complex Behaviors That Have Brought Humans Success
- DNA of 1,000 Year-Old Maize Sheds Light on Origins of Globally Important Food Crop
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Mammoth as Key Food Source for Ancient Americans
- How Did Humans and Dogs Become Friends? Connections in the Americas Began 12,000 Years Ago
- We Might Feel Love in Our Fingertips But Did the Ancient Mesopotamians?
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Monday, December 2, 2024
Friday, November 29, 2024
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
- Early North Americans Made Needles from Fur-Bearers
- Discovering the Traits of Extinct Birds
- Brains Grew Faster as Humans Evolved
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Monday, November 25, 2024
- Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Heard the Elks Painted on Rocks 'talking'
- Focaccia: A Neolithic Culinary Tradition Dating Back 9,000 Years Ago
- Herodotus' Theory on Armenian Origins Challenged by First Whole-Genome Study
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- The Parasaurolophus' Pipes: Modeling the Dinosaur's Crest to Study Its Sound
- Innovating Archaeology: Scholars Utilize Immersive 3D Tech to Document and Study the Human Past
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- Oldest Known Alphabet Unearthed in Ancient Syrian City
- Thanksgiving Special: Dinosaur Drumsticks and the Story of the Turkey Trot
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Scientists Use Ancient DNA to Shed Light on Adaptation of Early Europeans
- The Chilling Sound of the Aztec Death Whistle
Monday, November 18, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Genetic Legacy of Jomon Hunter-Gatherers Linked to Increased BMI in Modern Japanese, Study Finds
- The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- 12,000-Year-Old Stones May Be Very Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Technology
- On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
- Bird Brain from the Age of Dinosaurs Reveals Roots of Avian Intelligence
- More Evidence That Europe's Ancient Landscapes Were Open Woodlands: Oak, Hazel and Yew Were Abundant
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
- A New Wrinkle in Turtles: Their Genomes Fold in a Unique Way, Researchers Find
- Was 'Snowball Earth' A Global Event? Study Delivers Best Proof Yet
Friday, November 8, 2024
- Geologists Rewrite Textbooks With New Insights from the Bottom of the Grand Canyon
- New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- New Study Maps Dramatic 100-Million-Year Explosion in Color Signals Used by Animals
- DNA Evidence Rewrites Story of People Buried in Pompeii Eruption
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
- Did the World's Best-Preserved Dinosaurs Really Die in 'Pompeii-Type' Events?
- Fossil of Huge Terror Bird Offers New Information About Wildlife in South America 12 Million Years Ago
- Reconstructing Ancient Climate Provides Clues to Climate Change
Friday, November 1, 2024
- Evolutionary Paths Vastly Differ for Birds, Bats
- Indigenous Cultural Burning Has Protected Australia's Landscape for Millennia, Study Finds
Thursday, October 31, 2024
- A Novel Neural Network for Preserving Cultural Heritage Via 3D Image Reconstruction
- How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- Buried Alive: Carbon Dioxide Release from Magma Deep Beneath Ancient Volcanoes Was a Hidden Driver of Earth's Past Climate
- Into the Great Wide Open: How Steppe Pastoralist Groups Formed and Transformed Over Time
- Ancient DNA Brings to Life History of the Iconic Aurochs, Whose Tale Is Intertwined With Climate Change and Human Culture
- The 'urban Revolution' Was Slow in Bronze Age Arabia
- Large Herbivores Have Lived in Yellowstone National Park for More Than 2,000 Years
- Bones from Tudor Mary Rose Shipwreck Suggest Handedness Might Affect Collarbone Chemistry
- Sinuses Prevented Prehistoric Crocodile Relatives from Deep Diving
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- Britain's Brass Bands Older Than We Thought and Invented by Soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars
- Have We Found All the Major Maya Cities? Not Even Close, New Research Suggests
- Ancient Gene Influences Immunity of First Nations Peoples of Oceania
- Fossil Hunters Strike Gold With New Species
- Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice, Not Fire, Says a New Study of Ancient Volcanism
Monday, October 28, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- Fossils Unveil How Southern Europe's Ecosystem Changed Through Glacial-Interglacial Stages
- 'Paleo-Robots' To Help Scientists Understand How Fish Started to Walk on Land
- Paleontologists Discover Colorado 'swamp Dweller' That Lived Alongside Dinosaurs
- Symbiosis in Ancient Corals
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
- New Ice Core Data Provides Insight Into Climate 'tipping Points' During the Last Ice Age
- What Happened When a Meteorite the Size of Four Mount Everests Hit Earth?
- Weather-Changing El Nino Oscillation Is at Least 250 Million Years Old
- Rare Fossils of Extinct Elephant Document the Earliest Known Instance of Butchery in India
- Turtle Genome Provides New Clues on the Evolution of Vertebrates
- Creating a Simplified Form of Life
- Ancient Viral DNA in the Human Genome Linked to Multiple Sclerosis and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
- Traces of Ancient Immigration Patterns to Japan Found in 2000-Year-Old Genome
- Adaptability of Trees Persists After Millions of Years of Climate Change
Friday, October 11, 2024
- How Did the Building Blocks of Life Arrive on Earth?
- Genomic Study Identifies Human, Animal Hair in 'man-Eater' Lions' Teeth