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It's over 75 million years old and like something out of a fantasy video game with outlandish giant mushrooms, fairy chimneys and an alien throne.
17+ hour, 56+ min ago (502+ words) In a remote corner of the south-west USA, there is a desert where you can wander among cities of giant mushrooms. Or that is how it appears. It's a stark, sombre land of pale stone outcrops capped with dark-brown rocks…...
A million-year-old cave uncovers secrets from a world before humans existed
8+ hour, 7+ min ago (344+ words) Trevor Worthy put it bluntly: “It wasn’t a missing chapter in New Zealand’s ancient history, it was an entire volume.” Worthy, with co-author Paul Scofield, senior curator at Canterbury Museum, estimates that between 33% and 50% of the species living during that…...
Cavemen Used Mammoth Tusk Patterns to Create Unique Art, Reveals New Research
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (477+ words) [Stephen Beech | SWNS news] Cavemen used mammoth tusk patterns to create unique art, reveals new research. Intricate designs engraved on the surface of 18,000-year-old female figurines carved from mammoth ivory were inspired by “distinctive” growth patterns visible in the tusks,…...
Swedish Migration Reshaped Medieval Finland???s Genetic Landscape, Study Finds
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (544+ words) A new ancient DNA study reveals that coastal and inland communities in southwestern Finland were genetically similar during the early Middle Ages, before migration from Sweden transformed the coastal population. The research also shows that medieval Finland was deeply connected…...
Modern humans are the evolutionary product of different ancestral populations
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (201+ words) Most recently, an article in the scientific journal Nature (“Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture” Dyani Lewis, September 9, 2026) adds important new knowledge about their culture and geographic distribution. Furthermore, it was discovered that:…...
Things You Cannot See by Just 'Looking from the Outside'—Cultural Anthropology Encountered at 70｜Tsuyoshi Mano
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1589+ words) Recently, a visit to the National Museum of Ethnology sparked my interest in cultural anthropology. So, I started by quickly reading Keiichiro Matsumura's 'Anthropology of the Misfits: Ways of Living Together'. Having worked abroad, I have had relatively frequent opportunities…...
Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt
15+ hour, 48+ min ago (748+ words) Home - Science - Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt How does a…...
Did Wildfires Spark the Invention of Pottery?
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (475+ words) Pottery is one of the most important early technological innovations in human history. Combining clay with fire allowed Neolithic people to create water-carrying vessels, cooking pots, storage contain... Pottery is one of the most important early technological innovations in human…...
Why human language may be intertwined with fire
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (669+ words) Understanding how human language evolved is one of the hardest problems in science to unpick By Hannah Little & The Conversation When asked about the greatest innovation of humans, people will often say language or fire. A new paper suggests that…...