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“#World’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian” An artistic reconstruction of ‘Southern European’ Vikings emphasising the foreign gene flow into Viking Age Scandinavia. Credit: Jim Lyngvild Invaders, pirates, warriors—the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way…
“#T-rex skeleton could fetch record price at New York auction” The remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex named Stan will go on sale in New York The skeleton of a 40-foot (12-meter) dinosaur nicknamed “Stan”, one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found, will be auctioned in New York next month and could set…
“#How a giant short-faced bear reached the California Channel Islands” Two views of the short-faced bear toe recovered Daisy Cave, San Miguel Island, California Channel Islands (University of Oregon #514-6778). The cut bone indicates where samples were taken for DNA, radiocarbon and protein analysis. Credit: Excerpted from Figure 2, from: Mychajliw et al. 2020. Biogeographic…
“#Mexico identifies submerged wreck of Mayan slave ship” This July 24, 2017 photo released by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) on Sept. 15, 2020, shows what the INAH says is a detail of the iron skylight from the bow area of the Mayan slave ship “La Union,” off Sisal, in the Yucatan…
“#Finding in 100-million-year-old amber reveals sexual intercourse of ostracods” The studied ostracods from Myanmar amber. Credit: NIGPAS Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important role in paleoenvironmental reconstruction and evolutionary biology. The vast majority of fossil ostracods are represented by calcified shells, and their soft…
“#Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?” The proximity of hot springs to early settlements have led researchers to wonder if early humans used hot springs as a cooking resource long before fire. Credit: Tom Björklund Some of the oldest remains of early human ancestors have been unearthed in Olduvai Gorge, a…
“#New ‘eternal sleeper’ dinosaurs unearthed in China” September 15, 2020 report Changmiania liaoningensis, an ornithopod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Lujiatun (Liaoning Province, China). (A) Holotype PMOL AD00114 in dorsal view; (B) anterior part of the holotype PMOL AD00114 in caudolateral view; (C) referred specimen PMOL LFV022 in dorsal view. Red arrows indicate the…
“#Iron Age wine press yields clues to Phoenician building techniques” The wine press of Tell el-Burak. Image courtesy of the Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project. Credit: University of Tübingen Wine had great importance in the Iron Age Mediterranean. In particular, the Phoenicians—the inhabitants of the central coastal Levant—were considered to have played an important role in…
“#Ancient earthquake may have caused destruction of Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri” Aerial view showing the Southern Storage Complex (SSC), the Northern Storage Complex (NSC; blue dashed box) and the trench (red dashed lines) Credit: Eric Cline/GW A team of Israeli and American researchers funded by grants from the National Geographic Society and the Israel…
“#Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of water, fossil detective unveils” Through computed tomography (CT) imaging, WVU geologist James Lamsdell led a team that found evidence of air breathing in a 340 million-year-old sea scorpion, or eurypterid. This is one of the scans of the specimen. Credit: James Lamsdell Scientists have…