Montana burial site answers questions about early humans
Scientists have shown that at the Anzick site in Montana - the only known Clovis burial site - the skeletal remains of a young...
What did ancient Babylonians eat?
A Yale-Harvard team tested their recipes
Even ancient Babylonians chefs knew the value of a good cookbook.
Not unlike today’s chefs, the ancient Babylonians favored recipes...
Tiny frog trapped with beetle in amber for over 99 million years
Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests
About 99 million years ago, a tiny juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar was suddenly...
Sunflowers underwent rapid evolutionary transition in just over 5000 years
A new CU Boulder-led study sheds light on the genetic mechanisms that allowed sunflowers to undergo a relatively rapid evolutionary transition from wild to...
Amber freezes a tableau of tick’s worst day for 100 million years
One day in Myanmar during the Cretaceous period, a tick managed to ensnare itself in a spider web.
Realizing its predicament, the tick struggled to...
‘Gut instinct’ may have been the GPS of human ancestors
Ask anyone if they remember where they ate the juiciest burger, the sweetest cupcake or the smoothest bisque, and they probably can describe the...
Ancient Easter Islanders used rope, ramps to put giant hats on famous statues
The ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to move massive stone hats and place them on top of statues with...
How to put a 13-ton hat on a giant Easter Island statue?
How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue?
That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their study...
A weird thing happened to men about 7,000 years ago
Starting about 7,000 years ago, and extending over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, the genetic diversity of men—specifically, the diversity of their...
Ancient tooth shows Mesolithic ancestors were fish and plant eaters
Previous analysis of Mesolithic skeletal remains in this region has suggested a more varied Mediterranean diet consisting of terrestrial, freshwater and marine food resources,...