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“#Aboriginal artifacts reveal first ancient underwater cultural sites in Australia” Location maps of the study area and sites referenced in text. 1) Cape Bruguieres Island; (2) North Gidley Island; (3) Flying Foam Passage; (4) Dolphin Island; (5)Angel Island; (6) Legendre Island; (7) Malus Island; (8) Goodwyn Island; (9) Enderby Island. Credit: PLOS ONE The first…
“#Looping footstep pattern in modern guineafowl sheds light on dinosaur tracks” Sub-surface foot kinematics through a volume of substrate. Synchronized standard (a) and X-ray (b) video frames of a guineafowl walking through a dry granular substrate. Toes and markers are clearly revealed sub-surface (inset). (c) Oblique view of digit claw marker motion trails for one…
“#Paris show relives Pompeii’s final horrifying hours” All that remains: Pompeii today It is the most explosive Paris exhibition of the summer—Mount Vesuvius erupting several times a day in a new immersive 3D show which opens Wednesday in the Grand Palais. “Pompeii” recreates daily life in 79 AD (CE) in the hours before the volcano…
“#Amber fossils unlock true color of 99-million-year-old insects” Diverse structural-colored insects in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Credit: NIGPAS Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock’s feathers or the bright warning coloration of toxic frogs to the pearl-white camouflage of polar bears. Usually, fine structural detail necessary for the conservation…
“#Evidence found of Natufian people eating snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago” Bone modification types in the experimental material (left column) and their equivalents in the archaeological assemblage (right column). (a) Regular-edge perforations from the Mount Nitai pellet; (b) irregular-edge perforations from the trampling experiment; (c) smoothing of the regular-edge perforation from the trampling experiment;…
“#New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert” Artist’s impression of Mukupirna nambensis living in central Australia that was much greener 25 million years ago. Credit: Peter Schouten The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial—Mukupirna nambensis—that was unearthed in central Australia are so different from all other previously known extinct…
“#More fragments from 1952 crash in Alaska found in glacier” A lucky Buddha figurine, a flight suit, several 3-cent stamps, a crumpled 1952 Mass schedule for St. Patrick’s Church in Washington, D.C., and 480 bags containing individual human remains. Those were among the items recovered this month from Alaska’s Colony Glacier, where an annual somber…
“#Ancient Maya reservoirs contained toxic pollution: study” The ancient city of Tikal rises above the rainforest in northern Guatemala. Credit: David Lentz/UC Reservoirs in the heart of an ancient Maya city were so polluted with mercury and algae that the water likely was undrinkable. Researchers from the University of Cincinnati found toxic levels of pollution…
“#Non-tobacco plant identified in ancient pipe for first time” Replica pipes used to experimentally “smoke” tobacco and other native plants in WSU laboratories for the study. The charred residue is then extracted, chemically “fingerprinted”, and compared to residue of ancient archaeological pipes. Credit: WSU People in what is now Washington State were smoking Rhus glabra,…
“#Imaging systems to help libraries and museums uncover lost texts” Scientists from RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science inspect a manuscript at an archive in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Pictured are David Messinger, director of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, left; Tyler Peery ’19 Ph.D. (imaging science), center; and Professor Roger Easton…