Now there’s a new reason to own a 3D printer. MorphoSource, launched at Duke in 2013, is the largest and most open digital fossil repository of its kind. MorphoSource is allowing professionals and amauteurs download and create fossils that they… Continue Reading
In a middle-class tomb just east of the Nile River in what was Upper Nubia, a woman offers a glimpse of how two met civilizations met, mingled and a new pharaonic dynasty arose. Her tomb was Egyptian, but she was… Continue Reading
The lost tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent, one of the greatest rulers of the Ottoman Empire, may have been unearthed in southern Hungary. “Currently everything suggests that this building could have been Suleiman’s tomb. However, in order to be able… Continue Reading
Sometimes evolution proceeds much more rapidly than we might think. Genetic analysis makes it possible to detect the earliest stages of species formation and to gain a better understanding of speciation processes. For example, a study just published in PLOS… Continue Reading
A recent find in a cave has scientists all a buzz. They found Ice Age Lion Cubs with viable DNA. Currently Russian and Korean scientists are working together to try and clone the Ice Age Lions. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scientists-attempt-clone-ice-age-7497693
Analysis of DNA from ancient remains on the Greek island of Crete suggests the Minoans were indigenous Europeans, shedding new light on a debate over the provenance of this ancient culture. Scholars have variously argued the Bronze Age civilization arrived… Continue Reading
Tiny, delicate vessels that carried blood through a duck-billed dinosaur 80 million years ago never fossilized and still contain the beast’s tissue, a new study finds. http://www.livescience.com/53032-dinosaur-blood-vessels.html
Archaeologists may have found Europe’s last lost city, Itil the mythical capital of Khazar empire. The famed lost city has eluded many for centuries but until now. http://www.politico.eu/article/on-the-trail-of-europes-last-lost-city-russia-astrakhan/
The story of the 1951 annual Explorers Club dinner is famous, at least among explorers, paleontologists and connoisseurs of exotic cuisine. In brief, mammoth was served. A club member and journalist reported on the menu shortly afterward in The Christian… Continue Reading
In August of 2012, an 11-year-old boy made a gruesome discovery in a frozen bluff overlooking the Arctic Ocean. While exploring the foggy coast of Yenisei Bay, about 2000 kilometers south of the North Pole, he came upon the leg… Continue Reading