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
rench winemakers first learned the trade from the Etruscans, an ancient Italian civilization, kicking off domestic production around 525 B.C., according to new research by a team of scientists lead by Patrick McGovern. Archaeologists have long thought that the Etruscans brought wine and… Continue Reading
For the last several years, “space archaeologist” Sarah Parcak, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has pored over satellite images to discover lost pyramids, tombs and cities buried in Egypt. (She’s even detected the… Continue Reading
The Sterkfontein Caves have been one of the most prolific palaeoanthropological sites in the world, since the discovery of the first ever adult Australopithecus by Robert Broom, 80 years ago this year. Since this incredible discovery, some of palaeoanthropology’s most… Continue Reading