Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing
Please do not lick the science What’s the distinction in between an individual, an artifact, and an environment? Sarhan holds up a Petri meal of yeast cultured from Ötzi’s stomach….
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Ancient Oceans Began Losing Oxygen Millions of Years before End-Triassic Mass Extinction
Chemical traces maintained in ancient rocks show that marine environments were degrading long before the disaster that erased large varieties of types at the end of the Triassic duration, around…
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Ancient Crater Lakes May Have Provided Ideal Conditions for Earth’s Earliest Oxygen-Breathing Life
Scientists have actually found stromatolites– layered structures formed by microbial neighborhoods– inside a 42,000-year-old asteroid crater in South Korea, recommending ancient post-impact lakes might have served as ‘oxygen sanctuaries’ for…
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Ancient Earth Repeatedly Thawed during Catastrophic Ice Ages, New Research Suggests
Earth experienced severe environment swings throughout the Neoproterozoic date (one billion to 538.8 million years ago), consisting of the Sturtian glaciation, when ice most likely covered the world. Discussing elements…
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Ancient Tidal Flats Were Busier Than We Thought
New trace fossil discoveries from the half-billion-year-old Cambrian tidal flats of Wisconsin at a website called Blackberry Hill continue to paint the photo of a few of the earliest animals…
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Ancient Egyptian stone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh discovered in Luxor
An ancient Egyptian stela that illustrates the Roman emperor Tiberius(ideal)beside the Egyptian divine beings Amun, Mut and Khonsu. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Archaeologists…
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Ancient Korean society practiced human sacrifice and high inbreeding, researchers find
Excavation of burial places in the Joyeong burial complex in Gyeongsan, South Korea. (Image credit: Gyeongsan City) About 1,500 years earlier, whole households were compromised to honor regional royalty in…
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Ancient children’s teeth reveal a syphilis-like disease was spreading in Vietnam 4,000 years ago
Skeletal sores constant with genetic treponemal illness on a 5-year-old kid from Man Bac, Vietnam. (Image credit: Vlok et al. 2026, CC BY-NC 4.0) Archaeologists in Vietnam have actually made…
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Ancient Parrot DNA Points to Pre-Inca Animal Trade
Ancient DNA from brilliantly colored plumes discovered in Peru reveals that a minimum of 4 unique types of Amazonian parrots– the scarlet macaw (Ara macaothe blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara araraunathe red-and-green…
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Study: Ancient Mating Preferences Helped Shape Human Genome
Ancient people and Neanderthals didn’t simply interbreed, they did so with a constant sex predisposition, as male Neanderthals and female modern-day human beings mated more frequently, according to brand-new research…
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