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Liujiang skeleton re-dates earliest Homo sapiens in China
EarthSky· 6 days agoA new study has shed light on the date of the ancient Liujiang skeleton – a significant human fossil...
Tracking Humans’ First Footsteps in North America
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 hours agoThe White Sands footprints, whose age scholars estimated again, in a paper published this past October, by analyzing tree pollen and quartz grains in the...
Beethoven’s hair reveals new insights into the composer’s health issues
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis week, learn secrets unlocked by studying Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair, explore lava tubes where...
The Abuses of Prehistory
New Republic· 3 days agoBy studying early humans (who were now allegedly accessible in the form of Indigenous people), scholars believed they could illuminate what qualities are...
7,000 years ago, humans hunkered underground in lava tube caves with sheep, goats and art
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 5 days agoCooler air underground would have provided a welcome respite from the sun and wind, and for...
Is it a bird or a dinosaur? Fossils from Teylers Museum in Netherlands secretly visit UK's...
Phys.org· 4 days agoThe feathered limbs, sharp teeth and claws of the oldest known bird-like dinosaurs, the...
Reconstructing Erna
The Bulwark· 7 days agoTHERE WAS A TIME WHEN Erna Baiersdorf Engel-Jánosi was known for her way with men. Erna’s husband was named Róbert; he and his brother, Richárd, fought...
There Are More Animals That Start With 'X' Than You'd Expect
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoScientists have developed several methods for grouping different members of the animal kingdom by species or unique characteristics. However, there is arguably no better method for learning ...
‘It’s important we take some responsibility’: Why pensioners are joining Just Stop Oil
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoAs climate activists go, the pair of them met almost all the usual criteria. Their target was a...
Fact Check: Post Claims Princeton Scientists Made a 3D Model of the Biblical Eve. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 7 days ago"I thought the first set of humans would be, idk, hairier than this," wrote one commenter. Although...
