Ancient Superhighways: 12,000-Year-Old Underground Tunnels Stretching from Scotland to Turkey Over a million miles of tunnels connect every country and region across Europe, from the Scottish highlands to the Mediterranean coast. It’s awe-inspiring to see this 12,000-year-old underground network. According…
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Hellboy Dinosaur: The Discovery of Regaliceratops, Canada’s Rare Horned Fossil The prehistoric creature, named Regaliceratops peterhewsi, is a close relative of the familiar Triceratops and belongs to Ceratopsidae, a group of large-bodied, plant-eating dinosaurs that evolved in the Cretaceous period and were largely restricted to western…
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What If We Aren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth? Exploring the Silurian Hypothesis and Technosignatures Earth scientists at the turn of the century, Gavin Schmidt among them, were enthralled by a 56-million-year-old segment of geologic history known as the Paleocene-Eocene…
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Mystery Burial: 17th Century Scandinavian Girl Found with Bird Skulls in Mouth in Polish Cave When long-dead human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child that…
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100-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones Discovered in Meghalaya, India – Titanosaurian Sauropods Found Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods, dating back to about 100-million-years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. The yet-to-be-published findings were…
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50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Gut Microbiome Reveals Ancestral Links to Modern Health Neanderthals’ gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. An international research group led by the University of Bologna achieved this result by…
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Hidden for 1,000 Years: Discover the “Underground Great Wall” of China The Song Dynasty (960AD-1127AD) battled for 200 years with the Liao and Jin Dynasties, which at the time were ruled by minorities of China’s Northern Territories, the Khitans, and Jurchens respectively. The…
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Erosion Unveils a Possible Neolithic Village Site Near Skara Brae in Orkney The Scotsman reports that erosion on the island of Orkney at the northern end of the Bay of Skaill has exposed deer antlers, a boar tooth, a cattle jawbone, and a large…
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Discover the 3,000-Year-Old Prosthetic Toe: A Testament to Ancient Egyptian Innovation Almost two decades ago, archaeologists working in a burial chamber in the Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna necropolis west of Luxor, Egypt, found something unexpected: An exquisitely crafted prosthetic big toe…
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Unraveling Philistine Origins: Ancient DNA Links Biblical Enemies to European Ancestry An international team, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Leon Levy Expedition, retrieved and analyzed, for the first time,…
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