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Grand Canyon timeline rewritten by uranium dating
3+ week, 5+ day ago (945+ words) survives shows up as slanted wedges of rock visible from a handful of overlooks. John Wesley Powell noticed...One line of argument ties the erosion to Snowball Earth glaciations that began about 717 million years...
Scientists think they know how the first birds on Earth learned to fly
3+ week, 6+ day ago (986+ words) why it matters for understanding the transition from dinosaurs to birds. “Archaeopteryx is the first...near the midpoint of published estimates ranging from 7.1 ounces (200 grams) to 1.3 pounds (600 grams). The researchers used measurements from zebra finch takeoffs, including body movements and...
4,000-year-old stone preserves a symbol ancient voyagers carried across the sea
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1241+ words) red, sun-like sign of who they were. Archaeologists from the Australian National University (ANU) and Indonesia’s...wall. The shelter sits about 200 feet (60 meters) from the sea, and the slab came out of one corner of...lead author Sue O’Connor, a…...
Scientists scanned battle damage at Pompeii and found traces of an ancient rapid-fire dart launcher
2+ week, 3+ day ago (995+ words) household shrines, also protected the bombardment damage from that war. Italian engineers have now traced some...that damage to a weapon most scholars knew only from ancient texts. Square holes punched into the stone,...bullets survive by the thousands, but…...
Africa’s giant animals were disappearing long before humans arrived
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (791+ words) A 23-million-year fossil record shows Africa's giant mammals slowly vanished over time because evolution stopped replacing them. Ten million years ago, an African floodplain carried more kinds of giant plant-eaters than most people could name today. Early relatives of elephants,…...
Neanderthal men had a pelvis that looks more like a modern woman’s than a modern man’s
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (1006+ words) superior pubic ramus, a strut that runs forward from the hip socket to the joint at the front of the...the 1930s, on a damaged female Neanderthal pelvis from Tabun Cave, and the explanations piled up from there. A long strut…...
Ice Age cold left a genetic legacy still found in Japan today
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1227+ words) lab, is the senior author. In an interview with Earth.com, he started with what the team didn’t find....itself. The Jomon lived across the Japanese islands from roughly 16,000 to 3,000 years ago, fishing and gathering shellfish. Their line had broken…...
Stacked mummies in an Egyptian tomb looked like chaos until archaeologists mapped their burial order
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1280+ words) mapped one such room in the hills across the Nile from Luxor. They recorded 16 mummified people, a mummified...17 by 10 feet (5.1 by 3.2 m), roughly the floor space of a small bedroom. Bodies were carried into it,...
Archaeologists find first example of ‘portable symbols’ that traveled on artworks with seafarers over 4,000 years ago
2+ week, 3+ day ago (980+ words) painted wood and cloth decay. A broken stone plaque from Wetar Island in eastern Indonesia offers a rare...language on an object they could carry. The plaque came from the Huknaur 1 rock shelter, where it lay in an ancient...painted…...
New hairy-leafed plant species confirms another of Darwin’s predictions
4+ week, 10+ hour ago (986+ words) must also digest animal prey and take nutrients from it, turning captured insects into a useful food...sticky hairs, digests them, and takes in nitrogen from their bodies. The recent finding from the Kunming Institute of Botany adds a new…...