Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman
Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis has…
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admin Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness,…
Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota, nicknamed Gus, has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction.
A chance encounter led to one of the largest T. rexes ever found. Now, it could be ‘lost to science’
A large T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Gus’ is on track to break auction records, and highlight one of paleontology’s biggest…
Fossils of an ancient sea creature are the oldest evidence of right-handedness
Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in modern animals that…
Prehistoric cave discoveries hint at shared culture between Neanderthals and humans
Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted the…
Ancient DNA reveals clues about mysterious ‘Golden Man’ and rise of the Scythian elites
Elite Scythians such as the “Golden Man” inherited their lofty status and shared power during the Iron Age, DNA analysis…
Hobbit-like humans may have scavenged Komodo dragons’ leftovers to survive
Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey taken down…
Fossil kept in drawer for decades turns out to be first ever Antarctica dinosaur bone
A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur…
Artifacts dating back 400,000 years, found in cave, show ‘complex and rich’ pre-human society
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 years ago,…