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Early humans in China innovated technology to adapt to climate change one million years ago
To assess the degree to which early stone tool using hominins modified their tool manufacturing behaviours in Eastern Asia, Shixia Yang and colleagues examined three well-known archaeological sites from the...
New Research Launched on Airborne Virus Transmission in Buildings
As society prepares to reopen indoor spaces and ease back into some sense of normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National...
Why women leaders are excelling during the coronavirus pandemic
Since the beginning of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there's been a lot of media attention paid to the relationship between female leaders at the helm of various nations and the...
Desert mystery: Why have pronghorn antelope returned to Death Valley?
More than a century after railroads, ranchers and hunters vanquished their ancestors, pronghorn antelope are returning to this unforgiving expanse of desert along the California-Nevada border.
Prehistoric anchovy-like fish had large fangs and a saber tooth
A small international team of researchers has found that two prehistoric anchovy-like fish had fangs and a saber tooth. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science,...
Dozens of prehistoric, Roman and medieval sites discovered by archaeology volunteers working at home during lockdown
Dozens of previously unrecorded Roman, prehistoric and medieval sites have been discovered by archaeology volunteers based at home during the coronavirus lockdown.
How the Earth's last supercontinent broke apart to form the world we have today
Pangaea was the Earth's latest supercontinent—a vast amalgamation of all the major landmasses. Before Pangaea began to disintegrate, what we know today as Nova Scotia was attached to what seems...
Dinosaur Footprints on a Cave Ceiling
The footprints of sauropods, thirty-metre-long herbivorous dinosaurs, have been found on the roof of a cave located beneath the Causse Méjean plateau, in southeastern France. CNRS News talked to the...
Fossil footprints found in Sydney suburb are from the earliest swimming tetrapods in Australia
Fossil footprints discovered nearly 80 years ago in a sandstone quarry at Berowra have been identified as the traces of a four-legged animal swimming in a river nearly a quarter...
Need a stuffed crocodile? This B.C. museum has 2 of those for sale, and a lot more
A museum in B.C.’s Interior has put its entire collection, including hundreds of preserved animals up for auction online.
She organized California's back-to-work protests, but now she's calling it quits
Anti-lockdown protests have erupted all over California. Now, an organizer of the protests, under scrutiny from the media, is bowing out.
Ancient reptile had mammal-like tooth enamel
A new study by paleontologists shows that one type of ancient reptiles evolved a special type of tooth enamel, similar to that of mammals, with high resistance to wear and...
Remnants of human migration paths exist underwater at 'choke points'
A study shows evidence vital to understanding human prehistory beneath the seas in places that were dry during the Last Glacial Maximum. This paper informs one of the 'hottest mysteries'...
Geometry guided construction of earliest known temple, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge
Researchers have now used architectural analysis to discover that geometry informed the layout of Göbekli Tepe's impressive round stone structures and enormous assembly of limestone pillars, which they say were...
Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth 2 billion years ago
Earth may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously thought, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life, according to new research.
Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth two billion years ago
Earth may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously thought, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life, according to new research by scientists at...
Geometry guided construction of earliest known temple, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge
The sprawling 11,500-year-old stone Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, is the earliest known temple in human history and one of the most important discoveries of Neolithic research.
Air National Guard flyovers today salute California's essential coronavirus workers
A sky-high salute will honor California's workers on the front lines in the battle against the coronavirus on Wednesday.
Edward Nino Hernandez breaks world's shortest living man record
Edward Nino Hernandez, of Colombia, is the world's shortest man, Guinness World Records said.
Scientists uncover oldest bones of our species ever found in Europe
Human bones from a Bulgarian cave suggest our species arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought, sharing the continent much longer with Neanderthals.
Strange hollow buckyballs found in 80-million-year-old fossils
Scientists from The University of Western Australian and University of Cambridge have made a chance discovery in UK museum collections, finding hollow ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils from species believed...
Male, female dinosaur fossils too similar to distinguish, researchers say
Can a paleontologist tell whether a dinosaur was male or female simply by studying the fossil remains? A new study suggests the task is quite difficult, and most likely impossible,...
Strange hollow ball-like structures found in 80-million-year-old fossils
Scientists from The University of Western Australian and University of Cambridge have made a chance discovery in UK museum collections, finding hollow ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils from species believed...
Triassurus sixtelae fossil found in Kyrgyzstan is the oldest salamander ever found
Three researchers from Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg and Urweltmuseum GEOSKOP/Burg Lichtenberg, all in Germany, have found the oldest salamander fossil ever uncovered. In their...
Chimp raised like a human child shows phalangeal curve is genetic
A trio of researchers from the University of New Mexico, Harvard University and the University of Southern California has found evidence that suggests the curved phalange in apes is an...
North Korea expected to test new SLBMs, report says
North Korea could soon deploy new submarine-launched ballistic missiles, according to a South Korean press report.
Analyzing the landscape in the pre-Pyrenees inhabited by Neanderthals
Researcher Alfonso Benito Calvo, head of the Geomorphology and Formation Processes line of research at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, is the lead author of a...
Louisiana, South Carolina, Wisconsin to allow businesses to reopen
The governors of Louisiana, South Carolina and Wisconsin have announced certain businesses will be allowed to reopen within the next week.