The Pleistocene extinctions of 13,000 years ago were caused by a warming and drying environment and human caused fires.
Author: Dilek Yazıcı
Pre Inca people worshiped thunder god on a unique dance floor
Nearly a century before the Inca Empire came to power in 1400 AD, people worshipping the god of thunder may have lived high in the Andes.
Monkeys may have evolved upright stature in forested habitat for leaf, not fruit
We thought that apes developed an upright stature trunk to gather fruit in the forests, but it may have been to reach the leaves.
Excavations start at a possible WWII execution site in France
After the confession that German soldiers were executed during the World War II, excavations began at the executed site.
2,000 year old Iron Age coin treasure for the first time discovered in Wales
A coin treasure has been discovered scattered in an open field in Anglesey, an island in Wales, United Kingdom.
A skull discovered in China suggests a different kind of humans
A 300,000 year old skull has been found in China and reek features of both humans and more distantly related hominids.
500 million year old jellyfish fossil discovered in Burgess Shale
Paleontologists claim to have found an ancient jellyfish, whose body resembles modern moon jellies and box jellies.
A group of archaeologists think they have figured out how the Egyptians built the pyramids
The method the Egyptians used to build the pyramids thousands of years ago may have been explained.
Tomb with panda remains found in China
Chinese archaeologists find a giant panda skeleton in a 4000 year old tomb.This suggests that pandas were hunted at the time.
Granary discovered in the city of Rome’s first emperor Augustus
A granary belonging to the episcopal center of the period was unearthed in the ancient city of Sebaste, founded by Augustus, the first emperor of Rome.