Study highlights need to replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in ...
Tag: Old World
Ancient ostrich eggshell reveals new evidence of extreme climate change thousands of years ago
Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by ...
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questionsCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND, ...
Wallonia as an international reference for the timeline
Paleontologists from Univeristy of Liège (Belgium) redefine the geological boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. A Walloon site could ...
Fecal records show Maya population affected by climate change
Findings suggest that Maya settlement in city of Itzan started earlier and lasted longer than previously knownCredit: Andy Breckenridge A ...
New findings unveil a missing piece of human prehistory
Credit: IVPP A joint research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) ...
Tiny ancient bird from China shares skull features with Tyrannosaurus rex
Credit: WANG Min Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have ...
3,000-year-old shark attack victim found by Oxford-led researchers
Credit: Kyoto University Newspapers regularly carry stories of terrifying shark attacks, but in a paper published today, Oxford-led researchers reveal ...
Mushroom growing out of fossilized ant reveals new genus and species of fungal parasite
Credit: George Poinar Jr., OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a ...
First evidence that medieval plague victims were buried individually with ‘considerable care’
Credit: Mark Gridley In the mid-14th century Europe was devastated by a major pandemic - the Black Death - which ...
Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!
A new study describes a particularly diverse fossil flora from 400 million year ago.Credit: ©Univeristé de Liège The analysis of ...
Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than modern fowl because they were seen as sacred, not food — study shows
Credit: Julia Best Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred - not ...
Paleontologists for the first time discover the pierced skull of a Pleistocene cave bear
Probably the find is the only evidence in the world that ancient people hunted Pleistocene small cave bearsCredit: UrFU / ...
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
Credit: Prof. Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our ...
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