Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools
Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery.
Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery.
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2023
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On the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, a short valley extends south towards the looming Mount Homa. From it have emerged some of the oldest-known stone tools used to butcher large animals, as well as the oldest remains ...
Archaeology
Feb 11, 2023
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The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.
Evolution
Feb 1, 2023
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Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life.
Evolution
Jan 31, 2023
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A rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimaera has revealed new clues about the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous period, some 300 million years ago.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 17, 2023
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Paleontologists agree that a massive asteroid strike triggered the end of the dinosaurs, but a debate has persisted over the reptiles' overall state at the time of the fateful collision.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 25, 2022
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A former South African quarry is opening a window into an important period in the history of life.
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 30, 2022
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The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals, which lived about 385 to 320 million years ago during the Devonian and Carboniferous ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 28, 2022
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Three researchers, one with the University of Michigan, the other two with the University of Casablanca, have found a skull and partial skeleton in Morocco that they suggest link together several species of ancient whales. ...
A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present near the end of the Ediacaran ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 7, 2022
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