The incredible reason why T Rex's arms are so short
One question asked frequently by undergraduates to Kevin Padian stuck with him: Why are the arms of Tyrannosaurus rex so ridiculously short.
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Joseph Shavit
Dec 17, 2022
Scientists finally know what caused the Black Death
In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea
Joseph Shavit
Oct 20, 2022
Meet the world's first Neandertal family
Ancient genomes of 13 Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community and social organization over hundreds of thousands of years.
Joseph Shavit
Sep 17, 2022
Researchers discover extinct prehistoric reptile that lived among dinosaurs
Discovery sheds light on the Tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted.
Joseph Shavit
Sep 6, 2022
DNA from human remains shines new light on Jewish history
An analysis of DNA from 12th-century human remains has provided new insights into Ashkenazi Jewish population history.
Joseph Shavit
Sep 1, 2022
College student discovered Africa’s oldest known dinosaur
The skeleton — incredibly, mostly intact — was first found by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences.
Joshua Shavit
Aug 28, 2022
Researchers may have found the lost city of Natounia
The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the major regional centres of the Parthian Empire.
Joseph Shavit
Jul 31, 2022
Jurassic marine world unearthed in a farmer's field
An exceptional prehistoric site discovery containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field.
Joseph Shavit
Jul 31, 2022
Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian, according to DNA evidence
Cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books.
Joseph Shavit
Jul 15, 2022
5,000-year-old tomb discovered and linked to King Arthur
Archaeologists have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur hoping to answer questions surrounding the site.
Joshua Shavit
Jul 13, 2022
500-million-year-old fossil prompts a rethink of the evolution of insects
It’s what’s inside Stanleycaris’ head that has researchers most excited. Remains of the brain are still preserved after 506 million years.
Joseph Shavit
Jun 16, 2022
Europe’s largest land predator unearthed on the Isle of Wight
Researchers have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long.
Joseph Shavit
Jun 12, 2022
Prehistoric “Swiss Army knife” shows how early humans communicated
In a world first, researchers have revealed that early humans across southern Africa made a particular type of stone tool in the same shape.
Joseph Shavit
Jun 2, 2022
New dinosaur species used fearsome claws to graze along the coast
Scientists have described the youngest therizinosaur fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments.
Joseph Shavit
May 22, 2022
What the new Jurassic Park movie gets wrong about dinosaurs
One of the most exciting moments of the new Jurassic Park sequel, Jurassic World Dominion, is when Quetzalcoatlus swoops down from the sky.
Joseph Shavit
May 11, 2022
Researchers discover of a piece of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs
One fateful day some 66 million years ago, a 7.5-mile-wide space rock slammed into the Earth ending the age of the dinosaur.
Joseph Shavit
Apr 27, 2022
Study challenges theories of earlier human arrival in Americas
The paper challenges new theories that the earliest human inhabitants of North America arrived before the migration of people from Asia.
Joseph Shavit
Mar 22, 2022
Early man's food choices discovered through prehistoric pot residue
To reconstruct the cookery of people who lived thousands of years ago, bones and plant remains can tell us which ingredients were available
Joseph Shavit
Mar 3, 2022
Stonehenge served as an ancient solar calendar - study finds
It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 25, 2022
The fall of dinosaurs actually took place in the spring, research concludes
The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime according to an
international team of researchers.
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