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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Could Rewrite the Story of How Humans Reached Europe
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (557+ words) Microlithic projectile points from Uzbekistan may link Central Asia to a revised story of Homo sapiens’ early expansion into Europe. Researchers have identified tiny triangular projectile points at the Obi Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan by studying the marks left when…...
Scientists Discover 245-Million-Year-Old Reptile Fossil With Preserved Digestive Tract
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (399+ words) The researchers say the fossil not only documents the anatomy of an individual animal, but also helps clarify how some reptiles adapted to life in the ocean after evolving on land. An Early Marine Reptile With Remarkable Adaptations The fossil…...
DNA from museum bones revealed two extinct species of Galapagos tortoises
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (258+ words) Researchers from Yale University have discovered two extinct species of giant tortoises from the Galapagos Islands. This discovery was made possible by analyzing degraded DNA obtained from museum specimens in the form of dry bones. The use of a new…...
The Image of Neanderthals as a Species Exclusively Adapted to the Cold Is False: This Was What Led Them to Extinction
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (1163+ words) A global study suggests that climate change was not the main cause of Neanderthal extinction and points to competition with Homo sapiens as the determining factor. An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the…...
The dodo may not have been as foolish as historians thought.
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (75+ words) GIGAZINE Dodos probably weren't as stupid as historians made them out to be: new research ThoughtDAG is a free tool that transforms AI chat into a network of editable nodes. Chatto is a free self-hosting chat server similar to Discord,…...
Grok AI Analyzed the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film — The Results Are Shocking
12+ hour, 34+ min ago (98+ words) For nearly six decades, the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film has resisted every attempt to explain it away. Now Grok AI has analyzed the legendary 1967 footage using movement, proportion, terrain, and mask-boundary tests. What the system found challenges the classic man-in-a-suit theory…...
A school nature club fossicking on the shore of Kawhia Harbour in 2006 thought they had found a rusty boat propeller set in the mudstone — it took scientists 15 years to name what the children had actually dug out: a new species of giant penguin, 1.4 metres tall, that swam over the Waikato as much as 34 million years ago
12+ hour, 43+ min ago (646+ words) A school nature club fossicking on the shore of Kawhia Harbour in 2006 thought they had found a rusty boat propeller set in the mudstone — it took scientists 15 years to name what the children had actually dug out: a new species…...
Ancient giant tortoise DNA reveals secrets lost to time
11+ hour, 4+ min ago (1000+ words) Bioengineer.org...
Scientists opened a window into life more than 500 million years ago with an unusually preserved Cambrian fossil, and one tiny anatomical detail may help explain how a major feature of modern animals first appeared
21+ hour, 4+ min ago (524+ words) Scientists discovered a new clue about early ocean life in the Cambrian period, 540 million years ago. By ECONEWS · Editorial process Scientists have discovered a new clue about early ocean life in the days before dinosaurs, known as the early Cambrian…...
Only Reachable by Helicopter, This Remote Canadian Delta Just Revealed Dinosaur Tracks From an Era Almost Completely Erased From History
18+ hour, 42+ min ago (475+ words) Deep in a remote corner of Canada, researchers just filled in a gap that had puzzled paleontologists for decades. Ancient tracks, preserved for tens of millions of years, point to a dramatic shift in which creatures dominated this landscape, and…...