Study shakes up sloth family tree
Unique method finds two-toed sloths are last members of 'extinct' ancient familyCredit: Illustration by Jorge Blanco Sloths once roamed the ...
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Details of first historically recorded plague pandemic revealed by ancient genomes
Analysis of 8 new plague genomes from the first plague pandemic reveals previously unknown levels of plague diversity, and provides ...
Research reveals the link between primate knuckles and hand use
Research carried out by the University of Kent has found differences between the knuckle joints of primates that will enable ...
Exploring the origins of the apple
Apples originally evolved in the wild to entice ancient megafauna to disperse their seeds; more recently, humans began spreading the ...
Cocktails with Cleopatra?
Israeli scientists resurrect yeast from ancient beer jugs to recreate 5,000-year-old brewCredit: Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority. What kind of beer ...
PLOS announces published peer review option
San Francisco, CA., May 22, 2019---PLOS today announced that all its journals will offer authors the option to publish their ...
Mindfulness helps mothers with opioid use disorder combat depression
(Thomas Jefferson University) The discovery highlights alternative treatment options to pharmaceutical medications.
Earliest evidence of the cooking and eating of starch
Early human beings who lived around 120,000 years ago in South Africa were 'ecological geniuses' who were able to exploit ...
Chewing gums reveal the oldest Scandinavian human DNA
Credit: Per Persson/Stockholm University The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind ...
Traces of crawling in Italian cave give clues to ancient humans’ social behavior
Using multiple methods of analysis, researchers have identified the movements of a group of humans as they explored an Italian ...
Scientists use historical data to create first assessment of human impacts on biodiversity
The way humans use land across the British Isles has changed beyond recognition during the past 8,000 years. But what ...
Researchers find evolutionary backing in analysis of mammalian vertebrae
Differences in numbers of vertebrae are most extreme in mammals which do not rely on running and leaping, such as ...
New data platform illuminates history of humans’ environmental impact
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. ...
Abrupt climate change drove early South American population decline
Abrupt climate change some 8,000 years ago led to a dramatic decline in early South American populations, suggests new UCL ...
Research reveals surprisingly powerful bite of tiny early tetrapod
Credit: Image courtesy of Professor Jennifer Clack, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Micro-CT scanning of a tiny snake-like fossil discovered ...
New Jurassic non-avian theropod dinosaur sheds light on origin of flight in Dinosauria
Credit: Chung-Tat Cheung A new Jurassic non-avian theropod dinosaur from 163 million-year-old fossil deposits in northeastern China provides new information ...
Tibetan plateau first occupied by middle Pleistocene Denisovans
Credit: ITP The Tibetan Plateau, as Earth's "Third Pole," was reported to be first occupied by modern humans probably armed ...
Oxygen variation controls episodic pattern of Cambrian explosion: study
Credit: ZHU Maoyan The Cambrian Explosion around 540 million years ago was a key event in the evolutionary history of ...
Freshwater mussel shells were material of choice for prehistoric craftsmen
A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ...
Ayahuasca fixings found in 1,000-year-old bundle in the Andes
New evidence that the mind-blowing brew goes back millenniaCredit: Photos courtesy of Juan AlbarracÃn-Jordán and José Capriles. Today's hipster creatives ...
