Coprolites, or fossilized droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This led researchers at Uppsala University to conclude that this top predator was exploiting bones ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 31, 2019
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A few hundred thousand years ago during Earth's most recent ice age, a beefy subspecies of spotted hyena that was more than double the weight of its modern relative roamed Eurasia's snow-glazed terrain. Until their extinction ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 14, 2018
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Researchers held out hope that a famed skull and other valuable objects might somehow be recovered from the ashes of a massive blaze that tore through Brazil's National Museum after firefighters found bone fragments from ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 05, 2018
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Curtin University researchers have used DNA from fossil bones to reconstruct the past biodiversity of New Zealand, revealing a history of extinctions and biodiversity decline since human arrival there about 750 years ago.
Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 10, 2018
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Salt has been mined at Hallstatt since the Bronze Age, including for the preservation of pork meat. Bone fragments and teeth found in the area provide evidence of an organized meat industry, especially of pork. Residual DNA ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 12, 2018
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A 205-million-year-old jaw bone belonging to an ancient porpoise-like reptile known as an ichthyosaur was likely one of the largest ever known on Earth, researchers in Britain said Monday.
Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 09, 2018
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Was St Nicholas, the fourth century saint who inspired the iconography of Santa Claus, a legend or was he a real person?
Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 06, 2017
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For almost a century, the people of the Kutjungka region of WA have passed on the testimony of massacres of their ancestors at Sturt Creek.
Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 06, 2017
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A UBC Okanagan researcher has discovered a new artificial bone design that can be customized and made with a 3D printer for stronger, safer and more effective bone replacements.
Materials Science
Aug 17, 2017
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The Neanderthals and modern humans must have co-existed in Europe for several thousand years. What happened when they encountered each other and how they influenced one another are riveting questions. Jean-Jacques Hublin ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 14, 2017
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