Aug. 22, 2019 -- A single enzyme found in early single-cell life forms could explain why oxygen levels in the atmosphere remained low for two billion years during the Proterozoic eon, preventing life colonizing ...
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Aug. 22, 2019 -- Used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis and Soviets during the Second World War and Cold War, the remains of a 10th century male, unearthed beneath Prague Castle in 1928, have been the subject of ...
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Aug. 22, 2019 -- 34 million years ago the warm 'greenhouse climate' of the dinosaur age ended and the colder 'icehouse climate' of today commenced. Antarctica glaciated first and geological data ...
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Aug. 21, 2019 -- People in Croatia during the 5th to 6th centuries may have used cranial modifications to indicate their cultural affiliations, according to a new ...
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Aug. 21, 2019 -- Migration patterns in present-day Denmark shifted at the beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age, according to a new study. Migrants appear to have come from varied and potentially distant locations ...
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Aug. 21, 2019 -- New research on one of the oldest and most complete fossil primate skulls from South America shows instead that the pattern of brain evolution in this group was far more checkered. The study suggests ...
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Aug. 21, 2019 -- For the first time archaeologists have used the small bones found in the ear to look at the health of women and children from 160 years ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- A large-scale study conducted by an international team of scientists has revealed that the mysterious skeletons of Roopkund Lake -- once thought to have died during a single catastrophic event - ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Researchers have discovered a new 8,000 year old structure 11 meters below sea level on the Isle of Wight. It is the most intact, wooden Middle Stone Age structure ever found in the ...
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Aug. 16, 2019 -- Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia by an international team of archaeologists indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ...
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Aug. 16, 2019 -- Researchers studied a small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the River Nile a little over 100 years ago. The team used serval methods including non-destructive ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- 'Coprolites' from the Must Farm archaeological excavation in East Anglia, UK, shows the prehistoric inhabitants were infected by parasitic worms that can be spread by eating raw fish, frogs ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- When Earth's species were rapidly diversifying nearly 500 million years ago, that evolution was driven by complex factors including global cooling, more oxygen in the atmosphere, and more ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones of a Creighton's caracara from a flooded sinkhole on Great Abaco ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech, according to scientists. The new species was first identified from specimens collected ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- Eumelanin -- a natural pigment found for instance in human eyes -- has, for the first time, been identified in the fossilized compound eyes of 54-million-year-old crane-flies. It was previously ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- New research sheds light on how the braincase of the dinosaur Psittacosaurus developed and what this reveals about its ...
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Aug. 14, 2019 -- Abnormal bony growths in the ear canal were surprisingly common in Neanderthals, according to a new ...
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Aug. 14, 2019 -- Researchers have used artificial intelligence to make new discoveries, and confirm old ones, about one of nature's best-known mimics, opening up whole new directions of research in evolutionary ...
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Aug. 14, 2019 -- A new species of giant penguin -- about 1.6 metres tall -- has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury in New ...
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