Tag Archives: Archeology

[ad_1] According to scientists who analyzed slices of fossilized bones, large carnivorous dinosaurs reached their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing a teenage growth spurt. The researchers examined annual growth rings, similar to those in tree trunks, in …

[ad_1] The discovery of a creature described as resembling a “dandelion toucan” that lived some 68 million years ago has overturned hypotheses about the diversity of birds that lived alongside dinosaurs. Less than nine centimeters long, the delicate skull of the bird that scientists have dubbed Falcatakely forsterae could easily …

[ad_1] Archaeologists in Norway have discovered dozens of arrows, some dating back 6,000 years, melting from a 60-acre patch of ice in the county’s high mountains. Expeditions to explore the Langfonne Ice Zone in 2014 and 2016, both of which were particularly hot summers, also revealed abundant reindeer bones and …

[ad_1] Pinwheel Cave, California, with an enigmatic symbol painted inside the cave and an unfolding flower … [+] D. wrightii near the cave site. Melissa Dabulamanzi According to a study published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a spiral symbol painted on the walls of …

[ad_1] A volcanic eruption wiped out the city of Pompeii within minutes in 79 AD The remains of the ruins continue to appear today. A new discovery is particularly impressive. The Pompeii archaeologists have succeeded in the sensational reconstruction of two ancient victims of the historic volcanic catastrophe of the …

[ad_1] Saturday 21 November 2020 During excavations in the ruined ancient city of Pompeii, archaeologists find two well-preserved skeletons. Researchers are able to understand the living conditions of both men. Several indicators show that they were unequally related to each other. The Pompeii archaeologists have succeeded in the sensational reconstruction …

[ad_1] Archaeologists at the Pompeii Archaeological Park near Naples in southern Italy revealed on Saturday that they found two nearly intact bodies that could have been reconstructed in the position they were in when they died. The bodies would have been petrified when the volcano Vesuvius erupted in the year …

[ad_1] After that domestication event, some things seem to have remained constant. According to the team’s findings, after dogs separated from wolves over 11,000 years ago, wolves never made a major re-entry into dog populations (until, perhaps, the contemporary wolf dog craze). Given that dogs and wolves belong to the …

[ad_1] The fact that enough bone fragments were found to be able to reconstruct the skull was extremely rare, he said. Paranthropus robustus may have gone extinct as climate change produced a more humid environment that affected their plant-based diet of tubers and roots. Homo erectus, on the other hand, …

[ad_1] A fossil that had been languishing in a museum drawer in Brighton, wrongly labeled as a shark fin skeleton, has now been identified as an entirely new species of prehistoric flying reptile that soared majestically over what are now marshes of the Cambridgeshire. Roy Smith, a PhD student at …