#Seeking ancestral commonalities with modern human body type, researchers find stockier answer

“#Seeking ancestral commonalities with modern human body type, researchers find stockier answer” Reconstructed upper body skeleton of the 1.5 million years old Homo erectus youth from West Turkana, Kenya. The ribcage was deeper, wider and shorter than in modern humans, suggesting a stockier body shape and a larger lung volume. Credit: Markus Bastir, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0…

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#New evidence helps form digital reconstruction of most important medieval shrine

“#New evidence helps form digital reconstruction of most important medieval shrine” A CGI reconstruction of Thomas Beckets shrine. Credit: John Jenkins The shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, the most important pilgrimage destination in medieval England—visited for hundreds of years by pilgrims seeking miraculous healing—has been digitally reconstructed for the public, according to how experts believe…

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#Fossil of giant 70m year-old fish found in Argentina

“#Fossil of giant 70m year-old fish found in Argentina” A giant 70 million year old fossil of a fish that lived amongst dinosaurs has been discovered in Argentine Patagonia, a team of researchers said on Monday. Argentine paleontologists “found the remains of a predator fish that was more than six meters long,” the researchers said…

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#Divers uncover mysteries of earliest inhabitants of Americas deep inside Yucatan caves

“#Divers uncover mysteries of earliest inhabitants of Americas deep inside Yucatan caves” A diver from Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Q Roo (CINDAQ A.C.) collects charcoal samples in the oldest ochre mine ever found in the Americas, used 10,000-12,000 years ago by the earliest inhabitants of the Western hemisphere to procure the ancient commodity….

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#Experts find early ocher mine in Mexican underwater caves

“#Experts find early ocher mine in Mexican underwater caves” This Dec. 12, 2019 photo released by CINDAQ.ORG, or “Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Quintana Roo,” shows a diver in the “La Mina Roja” passage of the Sagitario underwater cave system near Playa del Carmen in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The discovery of remains of human-set…

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#Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia

“#Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia” Let’s turn back time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction wiped out 95% of all organisms—we had the Paleozoic Era. During this age in Earth’s history, between 541 million and 252 million years ago, arthropods (animals with exoskeletons such…

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#New species of Ichthyosaur discovered in museum collection

“#New species of Ichthyosaur discovered in museum collection” Credit: McGill University Hauffiopteryx altera (Latin for different from) has been identified as a new species of Ichthyosaurs by researchers from McGill University and the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany. Ichthyosaurs (‘fish lizards’), a group of tuna-shaped reptiles that inhabited Earth’s seas during the…

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#Researchers uncover an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed

“#Researchers uncover an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed” by Jonathan Benjamin, Geoff Bailey, Jo McDonald, Michael O’leary and Sean Ulm, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2020/47-researchersu.jpg” data-sub-html=”Credit: S Wright, Author provided” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/47-researchersu.jpg”> <figure><img alt=”Researchers uncover an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed” height=”480″ src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/47-researchersu.jpg” title=”Credit: S Wright, Author provided” width=”800″></img><figcaption>…

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