3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (816+ words) Researchers have identified four additional sailors from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition, including one man whose identity had remained the subject of debate for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (714+ words) "It's very unique. Typically, we find things that were broken and discarded," said Gifford Waters, collections manager for historical archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. "You don't leave things behind that you can still use, so why was…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (378+ words) A colossal cliff system created as the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart may have exposed the heart of the Grand Canyon nearly a billion years before the Colorado River carved it. The ancient landscape could also help explain why enormous sections…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (881+ words) More than 450 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared and before animals or plants had spread widely across dry land, crinoids were already thriving in some of Earth's earliest coral reefs. These ancient relatives of starfish looked somewhat like flowers…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (576+ words) New research from Monash University suggests that recent discoveries about human evolution are challenging the traditional system scientists use to name and classify our ancestors. The research, published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, calls for a major reconsideration…...