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‘PERPLEXING’ EXTINCT LIZARD LEADS TO EVOLUTION MYSTERY NOVEMBER 12TH, 2020POSTED BY MONICA KORTSHA-UT AUSTIN
  • 24/11/2020 10:59

‘PERPLEXING’ EXTINCT LIZARD LEADS TO EVOLUTION MYSTERY NOVEMBER 12TH, 2020POSTED BY MONICA KORTSHA-UT AUSTIN

Based on its skull, a new species of extinct lizard could fit in a number of spots in the tree of life, researchers report.

  • 1899

How dogs tracked their humans across the ancient world
  • 17/11/2020 11:16

How dogs tracked their humans across the ancient world

Sometime toward the end of the last ice age, a gray wolf gingerly approached a human encampment. Those first tentative steps set his species on the path to a dramatic transformation: By at least 15,000 years ago, those wolves had become dogs, and neither they nor their human companions would ever be the same. But just how this relationship evolved over the ensuing millennia has been a mystery. Now, in the most comprehensive comparison yet of ancient dog and human DNA, scientists are starting to fill in some of the blanks, revealing where dogs and humans traveled together—and where they may have parted ways.

  • 1736

Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game
  • 13/11/2020 11:00

Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game

When archaeologists discovered the bones of a 9000-year-old human in a burial pit high in the Andes, they were impressed by a tool kit of 20 stone projectile points and blades stacked neatly by the person’s side. All signs pointed to the discovery of a high-status hunter. “Everybody was talking about how this was a great chief, a big man,” says archaeologist Randy Haas of the University of California (UC), Davis.

  • 1886

Horse mastery helped mysterious Mongolian warriors build a multiethnic empire
  • 12/11/2020 08:38

Horse mastery helped mysterious Mongolian warriors build a multiethnic empire

Until now, the only accounts of the Xiongnu came from their enemies. Chinese records from 2200 years ago describe how these fierce mounted archers from the wide-open steppes of today’s Mongolia clashed with armies in what is now northwestern China. Their onslaughts spurred the Chinese to build what would become known as the Great Wall of China on their northern border, as protection against the mounted nomads. They also started to raise cavalry armies of their own.

  • 1800

Rare ancient burial contains child whose arms and legs were removed
  • 11/11/2020 10:37

Rare ancient burial contains child whose arms and legs were removed

The child's remains were painted with red ochre.

  • 1595

MYSTERY SOLVED: VOLCANOES COOLED EARTH 13,000 YEARS AGO
  • 10/11/2020 09:22

MYSTERY SOLVED: VOLCANOES COOLED EARTH 13,000 YEARS AGO

Ancient sediment found in a central Texas cave appears to solve the mystery of why the Earth cooled suddenly about 13,000 years ago, according to a new study.

  • 1858

CLOVIS ONLY MADE STONE TOOLS FOR ABOUT 300 YEARS
  • 09/11/2020 10:18

CLOVIS ONLY MADE STONE TOOLS FOR ABOUT 300 YEARS

The Clovis, some of North America’s earliest inhabitants, only made stone tools during a brief 300-year period from 13,050 to 12,750 years ago, new research shows.

  • 1960

SMALLPOX IS SO MUCH OLDER THAN WE THOUGHT, VIKINGS HAD IT
  • 05/08/2020 09:46

SMALLPOX IS SO MUCH OLDER THAN WE THOUGHT, VIKINGS HAD IT

The fatal disease smallpox is older and more widespread than scientists so far have proved, researchers report.

  • 1925

TEAM FINDS THE BIGGEST, OLDEST MAYA MONUMENT
  • 24/07/2020 15:39

TEAM FINDS THE BIGGEST, OLDEST MAYA MONUMENT

The Maya civilization may have developed more rapidly than archaeologists once thought, according to new research.

  • 1935

DIVERS DISCOVER MINING CAVE FROM THE ICE AGE
  • 22/07/2020 16:21

DIVERS DISCOVER MINING CAVE FROM THE ICE AGE

A team of underwater cave explorers in Mexico has discovered the oldest known system of red ochre mines in the Americas.

  • 2040