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Scientists Reconstruct 12-Million-Year-Old Ape Skull
A team of paleoanthropologists has assembled the only known cranium of the extinct ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, revealing how the ape’s face looked. The reconstruction allows them to place Pierolapithecus on the hominid family tree and improves our understanding of how the ape moved around Spain some 12 million years ago. Pierolapithecus was first described in…
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Neanderthals Likely Killed and Butchered Cave Lions, Speared Skeleton Suggests
Marks on the ribcage of a 48,000-year-old cave lion skeleton suggest the animal was killed by Neanderthals, making it the first evidence that our nearest human cousins hunted the Ice Age predators. A team of paleoanthropologists and archaeologists recently scrutinized the remains of four lions: the aforementioned skeleton, which was excavated in 1985 in Siegsdorf,…
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Viking Runestones Suggest Bluetooth’s Mom Was Actually a Really Big Deal
Archaeologists scrutinising two groups of runestones from Denmark have determined the name ‘Thyra’ mentioned in the two inscriptions refers to the same woman: Queen Thyra, wife of Gorm the Old, and mother of Harald Bluetooth, the ruler whose name adorns the technology that connects modern wireless devices. Vikings were seafarers, traders, and raiders that settled…
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The Most Captivating Photos of Last Weekend’s Annular Eclipse
The Moon took a big chomp out of the Sun over the other side of the world last weekend, and photographers across the Americas were ready to capture the celestial feast.. On Saturday, October 14, the skies dimmed across much of the western hemisphere, with regions along the path of annularity treated to the “ring…