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A Greenland ice core reads back almost 12,000 years of mercury fallout; humans were leaving traces thousands of years before the first factoriesGreenland's ice sheet reveals a 12,000-year mercury record, showing human contamination far predates industrial eras. Early Bronze Age smel...- Ancient squirrels ate meat like 'zombies,' and the proof is in the poopFrozen ancient squirrel feces from Canada's Yukon have revealed a lost Ice Age world. These coprolites, dating back up to 700,000 years, co...
- Scientists found rare microscopic Ice Age giant residues on ancient tools in the Carolinas, and it changed what they knew about early American huntersArchaeologists in the Carolinas have found direct evidence of Ice Age hunters killing megafauna. Using advanced protein residue and microsc...
- In 2024, A New York homeowner was mowing the lawn and strange “baseballs” in the grass revealed an Ice Age Mastodon jaw beneath the yardDuring a routine lawn mowing session in Orange County in 2024, a homeowner made a remarkable discovery that reshaped their understanding of...
- What construction workers discovered beneath a South Dakota housing site became one of North America’s richest mammoth fossil localitiesIn 1974, construction workers in Hot Springs, South Dakota, unearthed a significant Ice Age fossil site. The discovery revealed numerous ma...
- When a 9-year-old tripped in the New Mexico desert, he accidentally uncovered the remains of an ancient elephant relative from 1.2 million years agoA remarkable fossil discovery in New Mexico, made by a 9-year-old boy, has unearthed a 1.2-million-year-old stegomastodon skull. This chanc...
- Rainbow coloured phantom lakes appear beside Namibia’s Great White Place in stunning satellite imagesAstronauts captured a stunning display of vibrant, shimmering lakes in Namibia's Etosha Pan, a rare event following heavy flooding. These e...
- Neanderthal babies may have grown at surprisingly rapid speeds compared with modern humansScientists unearthed a Neanderthal infant, Amud 7, in Israel. Its bones and brain were larger than expected for its age. This suggests Nean...
- Archaeologists discover early humans built vast island networks across the PhilippinesNew findings show ancient Filipinos were not isolated. They actively sailed across open oceans thousands of years ago. Mindoro island holds...
- From Dirt to Discovery: How Cave Sediments Are Revealing Ice Age Species Without BonesResearchers are now analyzing ancient DNA found in soil to identify extinct species, revolutionizing prehistoric ecosystem research. This i...
- Half a Million Years Underwater: Scientists Discover Rare Ice Age Fossils in FloridaDivers found a sinkhole in Florida's Steinhatchee River. It holds fossils from nearly half a million years ago. These ancient remains belon...
- The 9,000-Year-Old Forest That Is Technically One Single TreeHigh in Sweden's mountains, a Norway spruce named Old Tjikko reveals a root system over 9,000 years old, challenging our understanding of i...
- 'Game of Thrones' dire wolves return after 12,000 years: How researchers brought them backColossal Biosciences has achieved a scientific breakthrough by breeding three wolf pups resembling the extinct dire wolves. Born in a seclu...
- 300,000-year-old 'giant stone tools' discovered in KentA senior geo-archaeologist at the UCL Institute of Archaeology named Letty Ingrey describes the tools as ‘giants’ when they are anywhere ab...
- Ancient human ancestor likely survived through Ice AgeAn ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age, a 14,000 year-ol...
- Retreating ice behind population explosion in Adelie penguins?The penguin population in East Antarctica is 135 times larger now than it was when the last ice age ended around 19,000 years ago.
- Retreating ice behind population explosion in Adelie penguins?Adelie penguins may be benefiting from shrinking glaciers, according to a new study that found the population of the species in East Antarc...
- Rapid climate change led to decline of ice age trees: StudyShort, sharp fluctuations in the Earth's climate throughout the last ice age may have stopped trees from establishing themselves in Europe ...
- Making science fiction a reality show may not be wiseUnfortunately, if the world itself ends this year or very soon, as some ancient texts have predicted, all this will come to nought.
- Does warming have species on the run?Land ecosystems will have to move hundreds of metres each year in order to cope with global warming, according to a letter published in the...
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