Investigators from the University of Iowa announce the discovery of a massive crocodile species that lived in what is now Kenya, East Africa, between 2 and 4 million years ago. The reptile may have grown to around 8.2 meter... [read more >>] A group of experts from the University of Cambridge believes that the earliest humans may have started walking on two feet in order to be able to monopolize resources in their environment. This was achieved by being able to... [read more >>] Researchers in the United Kingdom and Canada announce the discovery of the oldest known vertebrate, a creature that lived about 505 million years ago. This finding makes the animal the ancestor of all known vertebrates that... [read more >>] A team of experts at the Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Colorado in Denver (UCD) say that ancient hominins who lived during the last Ice Age were biologically and mentally capable of adapting to the ne... [read more >>] A joint effort between the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Google managed to transfer the Dead Sea Scrolls from their parchment and papyrus foundation to the online environment. High-resolution scans of the oldest known bibl... [read more >>] Investigators at the Indiana University announce the creation of a new computer model depicting the brain of Australopithecus sediba, an ancient hominin species that lived around 2 million years ago.
The creature did no... [read more >>] According to a new finding, it would appear that ancient hominins had an upright gait more than 2 million years earlier than experts previously estimated. This conclusion is based on an analysis of a famous trail containing... [read more >>] The results of a new genetic analysis show that people living outside of Africa all carry genetic materials from Neanderthals, the species of hominids Homo sapiens had to compete with in order to ensure dominance all over t... [read more >>] Yesterday, May 31, the ill-fated RMS Titanic reached its 100th anniversary. The ship that would go on to become the world's most famous shipwreck was launched on May 31, 1911, by the Harland & Wolff shipyards, in Belfa... [read more >>] According to a new research paper, archaeologists recently discovered the oldest mine in the Americas. The iron oxide mine has been found in Chile, and initial studies estimate its age at around 12,000 years. Details of the... [read more >>] |