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Grand Canyon timeline rewritten by uranium dating
3+ week, 5+ day ago (945+ words) 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) A computer model suggests Archaeopteryx may have used two or three powerful leaps to build enough speed for flight. Bird flight did not appear in its modern form all at once. Early feathered animals still carried dinosaur features, so the…...
4,000-year-old stone preserves a symbol ancient voyagers carried across the sea
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1241+ words) lead author Sue O’Connor, a professor at ANU, told Earth.com. Her team brushes the dirt off every rock it...
Scientists scanned battle damage at Pompeii and found traces of an ancient rapid-fire dart launcher
2+ week, 3+ day ago (995+ words) Square holes in Pompeii's northern walls may be the only battlefield evidence of the polybolos, a rapid-fire dart launcher used in 89 BC. The ash that buried Pompeii in 79 AD did more than preserve frescoes, bakeries, and the dead. It is…...
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....and 17 published earlier by other teams. Oota told Earth.com that these genomes amount to “a kind of genetic...
Africa’s giant animals were disappearing long before humans arrived
3+ day, 18+ 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,…...
Sensors found two air pockets sealed for 4,500 years inside Giza’s smallest pyramid, and they may lead to a hidden entrance
1+ week, 6+ day ago (824+ words) At 207 feet (63 meters) high, Menkaure has spent centuries as the quiet third sibling of Giza, dwarfed by the massive shadows of Khufu and Khafre. But now may be its time to shine. On the eastern face of the smallest great…...
Stacked mummies in an Egyptian tomb looked like chaos until archaeologists mapped their burial order
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1280+ words) A mummified dog lay across two bodies in a Theban tomb where every new burial was fitted around the ones already lying there. When an Egyptian tomb turns up full of mummies stacked on each other, the usual explanation is…...
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) A 4,000-year-old painted plaque reveals how Austronesian seafarers carried art, shared beliefs, and identities across island networks. People crossing ancient seas carried more than tools and food. They also carried symbols of belonging, belief, and community ties. Archaeologists rarely recover…...
Neanderthal men had a pelvis that looks more like a modern woman’s than a modern man’s
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (1006+ words) Neanderthal pelvis bones kept an older design, while the modern male pelvis became a shock absorber that returns energy at every step. Walk across a room and your body weight drops onto one hip, then the other, and the joints…...