Prehistory

Benjamin Johnson May 28, 2018 53

The discovery of a site, which dates back 14,550 years, shows that humans settled the south-eastern United States much earlier than scientists previously believed by as much as 1,500 years. The discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in a…

Benjamin Johnson May 23, 2018 22

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? Over the course of tens of millions of years, however, all of the direct evidence of a civilization — its artifacts…

Benjamin Johnson May 15, 2018 14

UTA researcher Naomi Cleghorn has participated in a Nature paper that describes how humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba volcanic eruption about 74,000 years ago, which created a decades-long volcanic winter. Cleghorn, a UTA associate professor of sociology and anthropology, said:…

Benjamin Johnson May 07, 2018 9

Using revolutionary forensic scanning technology and world-class expertise, researchers have discovered surprising evidence that the Oxford Dodo was shot in the neck and back of the head with a shotgun. The significant and unexpected findings, made by Professor Paul Smith, director of… The post World Famous Oxford Dodo’s Violent Death Finally Revealed appeared first on Vision Times.

Benjamin Johnson Apr 30, 2018 15

Imperial experts have found a “breadcrumb trail” of debris from an 800,000-year-old meteor impact. Around 800,000 years ago, a 20 kilometer meteor collided with the Earth, producing a zone of debris in Australasia that covers a tenth of the Earth’s…

Benjamin Johnson Apr 24, 2018 78

Scientists conclude methane-producing microbes date back 3.5 billion years, supporting the hypothesis that they could have contributed to early global warming.  Early forms of life very likely had metabolisms that transformed the primordial Earth, such as initiating the carbon cycle…

Benjamin Johnson Apr 12, 2018 6

For now, there are just a few things researchers and students at the University of Kansas want people to dig about the new dinosaur they recently excavated in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. First off, it’s a “fabulous” complete section of the…

Benjamin Johnson Dec 18, 2017 110

Neandertals have long since walked on Earth; however, about 2 percent of their DNA remains in non-African people living today. Now, researchers have discovered those Neandertal genes have contributed a lot more than just to human immunity and modern diseases.…