Science

World’s Oldest Cave Engraving Is A Vagina

This is a wall engraving from Abri Castanet, a shallow cave in southern France’s Vezere valley. It’s the oldest known cave etching, probably dating back around 37,000 years — and the researchers claim it depicts female genitalia.


May 15, 2012
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Modern Man Tries To Build 3500-Year-Old Boat From The Bronze Age And Fails

A team of people from 2012 tried to re-create and build a boat from 1550 BC, the Bronze Age, but failed spectacularly. When the ship was lowered into the ocean, it immediately filled with water and started sinking. Yikes, we suck.


April 3, 2012
Science

Million-Year-Old Campfire Could Be One Of Humanity’s First

Harnessing fire is up there with language and an upright stance in terms of “important milestones in early human development”. And if the findings from a recent excavation are verified, hominids may have been playing with fire for far longer than we previously suspected.


March 28, 2012
Science

Origin Of Modern Cows Traced To A Single Herd

A genetic study of cattle has claimed that all modern domesticated bovines are descended from a single herd of wild ox that lived 10,500 years ago.


March 15, 2012
Science

Scientists Find Completely New Human Species

Your family tree just got wider. Scientists have analysed fossils found in China and deemed them to be from a new human species unlike any ever identified before; say hello to your long-lost cousin.


March 8, 2012
Science

Velociraptors Were Dirty, Cheating Scavengers

If Jurassic Park taught me anything, it was that velociraptors were fast, deadly and terrifying predators. But it turns out that might not be true, because a team of researchers has discovered that ‘raptors were scavengers.


January 20, 2012
Science

6700-Year-Old Popcorn Discovered

A discovery at a couple of archaeological mound sites in northern Peru has scientists believing that the people living there were eating popcorn almost 1000 years earlier than previously reported.


December 10, 2011
Science

The World’s Oldest Bed Is 77,000 Years Old

Archaeologists have found the world’s oldest bed in South Africa and it’s 50,000 years older than any bedding ever found. The 77,000-year-old bedding, which was made with medicinal plants, shows how creative our ancestors could be.


December 8, 2011
Science

Experts Baffled By Mysterious Ancient Markings

An excavation in a part of Jerusalem known as the City of David has uncovered stone markings that date back thousands of years. Nobody has any idea what they are or what they mean.


October 20, 2011
Science

Archaeologists Unearth Intact Viking Burial Site

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 1000-year-old Viking in Scotland, along with his boat, axe, sword and lots of other nifty Viking stuff.