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“#Insect-crunching reptiles on ancient islands of the U.K.” Two species of the lizard-like reptile Clevosaurus hunting their preferred prey; Clevosaurus hudsoni feeding on a crunchy beetle (top) and Clevosaurus cambrica (bottom) feeding on a softer insect. Credit: Sofia Chambi-Trowell By analyzing the fossilized jaw mechanics of reptiles who lived in the Severn Channel region of…
“#Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints” University of Queensland. Credit: Anthony Romilio North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus—now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs. The discovery came in University of Queensland research, led by paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio, which analyzed southern Queensland…
“#Seafood helped prehistoric people migrate out of Africa, study reveals” Living specimen of the marine mollusc Conomurex fasciatus. Millions of these shells were found on the Farasan Islands in Saudi Arabia as the food refuse of prehistoric fishers. Credit: Niklas Hausmann Prehistoric pioneers could have relied on shellfish to sustain them as they followed migratory…
“#How aerial technology helped us discover the largest Pictish settlement in Scotland” Tap O’Noth with its fort enclosure visible at the summit. Author provided A much-loved local landmark with an ancient fort at its summit, Tap O’Noth is a gently sloping hill overlooking the lush rolling farmland around the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire. Until…
“#Australian fossil reveals new plant species” Co-author Anne-Laure Decombeix excavating the Barraba fossil site during an expedition in 2013. Credit: Antoine Champreux Antoine Champreux, a Ph.D. student in the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University, has cataloged the discovery of the new fern-like plant species as part of an international effort to examine the Australian…
“#New fossil discovery shows 50 million-year-old Canada-Australia connection” The new fossil lacewing species from British Columbia, Canada, with an almost complete wing. Credit: The Canadian Entomologist. Used by permission. The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate and shifting…
“#48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest” Credit: M. C. Langley/Shutterstock/The Conversation Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting with bows and arrows outside Africa. At Fa-Hien Lena, a cave in the heart of Sri Lanka’s wet zone forests, we discovered numerous…
“#Cave divers search depths for the bones of the Ice Age” Cave divers carefully maneuver the giant ground sloth’s pelvis through Hoyo Negro. Credit: Sam Meacham, CINDAQ For thousands of years, the massive pelvis lay undisturbed at the bottom of the watery black pit. Approximately four feet across and weighing an estimated 80 pounds, it…
“#Unexpected mammal provides insight into the lives of ancient hominins” CT Image of of Tapirus bairidii without a sagittal crest. Credit: M. Colbert For decades, anthropologists have attempted to solve the mystery of what hominins—early ancestors of humans—ate to survive. The answer to this question can be found etched into the bones and teeth of…
“#Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis” Multiple burial in Vilnius, Lithuania containing an individual infected with both plague and yaws. Credit: Robertas Žukovskis and Scientific Reports. Mass burials are common remnants of the many plague outbreaks that ravaged Medieval Europe. A number of these graveyards are well…