Europe’s oldest handgun may date to 14th-century siege at German castle
A piece of the pistol discovered in 2023. (Image credit: Prignitz District) Pieces of an early pistol discovered in Brandenburg, Germany, might be from Europe’s earliest understood portable gunpowder weapon,…
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World’s oldest known sewn clothing may be stitched pieces of ice age hide unearthed in Oregon cave
The stitched conceal, conceal fiber, braided cables and knotted bark were initially discovered in 1958. ( Image credit: Rosencrance et al, Science Advances(2026)CC-BY-NC) The earliest recognized stitched clothes on the…
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Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago
(Image credit: Museu Arqueologico de Sambaquis de Joinville) Harpoons crafted from the bones of humpback and southern best whales reveal Indigenous groups in what is now Brazil were searching whales…
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What’s the oldest river in the world?
The Finke River in Australia (or Larapinta in the Indigenous Arrernte language )is the earliest recognized river worldwide that still exists today. (Image credit: Posnov/Getty Images) Rivers might appear as…
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This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t begin the fire. (Neanderthals did, a minimum of 400,000 years earlier.) This artist’s impression reveals what the fire at Barnham may have appeared like. Credit: Craig Williams, The…
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World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth
Avoid to content Sequencing an ancient animal’s RNA opens a brand-new window into extinct life. The Yuka massive on screen in a frozen collection Credit: Valeri Plotnikov A young woolly…
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World’s Oldest Host-Associated Microbial DNA Obtained from Ancient Mammoth Remains
In a brand-new research study, researchers evaluated ancient microbial DNA from 483 massive remains covering over 1 million years, consisting of 440 newly-sequenced and unpublished samples from a 1.1-million-year-old steppe…
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World’s Oldest Ankylosaur Had Uniquely Elaborate Dermal Armor
The armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs are best understood from Late Cretaceous northern hemisphere communities, however their early development in the Early-Middle Jurassic is shrouded in secret due to a bad fossil…
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East Asia’s Oldest Known Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Unearthed in China
Wudingloong wui resided in what is now Yunnan, China, around 200 million years ago (Early Jurassic date). Rebuilt skeleton and representative bones of Wudingloong wuiPerson scale bars– 5 cm. Scale…
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Oldest wooden tools unearthed in East Asia show that ancient humans made planned trips to dig up edible plants
Archaeologists have actually uncovered the earliest wood tools ever discovered in East Asia. (Image credit: Bo Li ) Archaeologists have actually found 35 wood tools from the Old Stone Age…
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