[ad_1] Paleoanthropologists have discovered a two-million-year-old adult hominid skull – the first known and best-preserved specimen of Paranthropus robustus ever found. Researchers from the Department of Archeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, led the excavation, reconstruction and analysis of the rare male fossil from the main Drimolen quarry …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: The discovery of an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil of the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus suggests rapid evolution during a turbulent period of local climate change, resulting in anatomical changes that … More Credit: Image courtesy of Jesse Martin and David Strait Males of the extinct human species Paranthropus …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: View of the reconstruction of the life of Cambaytherium (illustration by Elaine Kasmer) More Credit: Elaine Kasmer New research published today on Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes a fossil family that sheds light on the origin of the perissodactyls, the group of mammals that includes horses, rhinos and …
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[ad_1] The first discovery of duckbill fossils in Africa offers an insight into how dinosaurs could have crossed the open ocean to get to the continent. An international team of researchers published their findings in the journal Cretaceous Research, detailing the discovery of a new dinosaur called Ajnabia odysseus. The …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: The regional variation in Chinese cuisine that exists today reflects some of the basic food choices people made thousands of years ago. View More Credit: Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute The food preparation preferences of Chinese cooks – such as the technological choice of boiling or steaming cereals instead of …
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