Ancient bone protein reveals which turtles were on the menu in Florida, Caribbean
Credit: Michelle LeFebvre/Florida Museum MANCHESTER, England and GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and ...
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Traditional fisherfolk help uncover ancient fish preservation methods
Credit: Richard Cooke Fish has been a predominant and high-quality protein and oil source in the human diet since ancient ...
Anthropologist contributes to major study of large animal extinction
Research published in Science explains the effect of human-influenced mass extinction of giant carnivores and herbivores from North America.Credit: University ...
Ancient Australia was home to strange marsupial giants, some weighing over 1,000 kg
Extinct palorchestid marsupials likely filled a niche no longer occupied in modern AustraliaCredit: Hazel Richards (2019) Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct ...
Fossil of smallest old world monkey species discovered in Kenya
Research team discovered Nanopithecus browni near Kanapoi, Kenya, far from the habitat of other guenonsCredit: Carol Ward Researchers from the ...
UTSA to research environmental comfort at the San Antonio Missions
Credit: Photo Courtesy of Marcus Huerta (San Antonio, June 25, 2019) -- Working with local architecture firm Ford, Powell & ...
New study shows how environmental disruptions affected ancient societies
LSU College of the Coast & Environment Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Day has collaborated with archeologists on a new analysis ...
3D reconstruction of craniums elucidates the evolution of New World monkeys
Computed tomography scans of fossils from two extinct species point to evolutionary adaptations and kinship with extant howler, spider and ...
Past climate change: A warning for the future?
Disruptions rippled out from climate change in South AmericaCredit: Umberto Lombardo, University of Bern, Switzerland A new study of climate ...
More mysterious jars of the dead unearthed in Laos
Credit: Image: ANU ANU and Uni of Melbourne Archaeologists have discovered 15 new sites in Laos containing more than one ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lost graves identified by new archaeology methods
Archaeologists are using subsurface imaging technology to help community groups map unmarked gravesCredit: Flinders University Flinders University archaeologists are using ...
Holy Pleistocene Batman, the answer’s in the cave
Let's say you wanted to solve a 20,000-year-old mystery, where would you start? Let's say you wanted to solve a ...