Scientists Just Discovered Ancient Squirrels Were Way More Metal Than You Think
One of my favorite old-school ways to call someone crazy is saying they’re “nuttier than squirrel shit.” It’s…
Scientists Thought Alaska Fossils Were Mammoths, They Were Whales
For several decades, the story of why woolly mammoths disappeared seemed remarkably simple and unquestioned; radiocarbon-dated fossils across…
Hidden in the dust: The 2-billion-year-old asteroid crater that holds the secret clue to ending an ice age
Scientists have identified the Yarrabubba impact crater in Western Australia as the Earth’s oldest, dating back 2.229 billion…
146,000-year-old Ice Age humans used advanced stone tools for butchery and survival
A new study from central China is changing how scientists think about creativity and survival among ancient humans.…
Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can…
Neanderthals May Have Hunted Giant Elephants that Roamed across Prehistoric Europe
Chemical clues preserved in the teeth of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) from the 125,000-year-old site of Neumark-Nord in…
40,000-Year-Old Ice Age Symbols May Be First Step in Writing
The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave. (Photo: University of Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen CC BY 4.0) Long before…
Japanese Archipelago Was Once a Refuge for Cave Lions
Between 73,000 and 20,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene), the Japanese Archipelago was inhabited by cave lions (Panthera spelaea),…
Scientists Found the Coldest Seawater in History from when Snowball Earth Reached Freezing Temperatures of Minus 15° Celsius
Illustration of “Snow Ball” Earth. Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles…
Giant prehistoric kangaroos were likely able to hop, fossil study suggests
For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body…
18,000-Year-Old Circular Dwellings Made of Mammoth Bones Unearthed in Ukraine
The Upper Paleolithic site of Mezhyrich, located in Cherkasy oblast, central Ukraine, is home to four remarkable mammoth…
Neanderthals and early humans reshaped Europe’s landscapes long before the rise of agriculture, study finds
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s…