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130,000-year-old Neanderthal-carved bear bone is symbolic art, study argues
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoNeanderthals made parallel marks on this bear bone. A nearly 130,000-year-old bear bone was...
A green comet that takes about 50,000 years to complete its orbit around the sun will come closest...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA green comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is expected to be about 26 million miles from Earth on February...
Something Weird Is Happening With Dog Names
Slate via Yahoo News· 3 days agoI recently found myself thinking about the dogs I know. More specifically, about their names: Among the dogs in my inner circle, there is a Murphy, a...
What's that ghostly, mournful wail coming from the woods? Probably an eastern screech-owl.
The Bulletin via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe sound was unmistakable and led me outdoors to face the thick woods across the road. In the...
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoDeep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich...
Baker: The curious history of cows is a moving story
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis year’s COP27 meetings in Sharm el-Sheikh has gotten me thinking about cows. The controversial question of whether methane-belching cattle have a...
Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering a...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAncient DNA preserved in the tooth tartar of human fossils encodes microbial metabolites that could...