Did they walk on their toes like today’s dogs? Did they burrow in the ground or live in trees? What food did they prey on and what animals preyed upon them? How did they relate to extinct doglike species that came before them? And, potentially, is this an entirely new undiscovered species? This new fossil is providing SDNHM scientists with a few more pieces of an incomplete evolutionary puzzle.
Author: Elif Duluk
The basis of the solution of gynecological diseases, Metrodora
Metrodora, an Egyptian gynecologist, was a notable figure in the world of medicine. Her work as a gynecology researcher and disseminator won her extraordinary acclaim from her peers.
The study of ancient predators sheds light on how humans found food or did not
A new Rice University-led study of ancient predator remains reveals new information about how prehistoric humans found – or did not find – food.
Stonehenge’s builders lives revealed through parasitic poop
Prehistoric poop discovered near Stonehenge sheds light on the pets, parties, and dodgy diets of the Neolithic monument’s builders.
Plankton’s endurance to prior global warming events is revealed by the discovery of “ghost” fossils.
An multinational team of experts from the Natural History Museum, UCL (University College London), the University of Florence, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History discovered a unique sort of fossilisation that had previously gone unnoticed.
The ‘ghost’ fossils are imprints of coccolithophores, which are single-celled plankton. Their discovery is altering our understanding of how climate change affects plankton in the oceans.
For the first time, an 8,600-year-old flute was displayed
A program was organized by the Bilecik Museum Directorate on the occasion of the 18 May International Museum Day. The finds unearthed in the Bahçelievler and Gedikkaya excavations in Bilecik, were opened to visitors.
Phoenician Necropolis discovered in Southern Spain in Iberian Peninsula
Workers in southern Spain renovating water supply discovered a “exceptional” and well-preserved necropolis of subterranean limestone vaults where the Phoenicians who resided on the Iberian peninsula 2,500 years ago buried their dead.
An ancient tooth of a mysterious Denisovan girl may have been discovered
The discovery of an ancient molar — a tooth that likely belonged to young girl who lived up to 164,000 years ago in a cave in what is now Laos — is new evidence that the mysterious human lineage dubbed the Denisovans, previously known only from caves in Siberia and China, also lived in Southeast Asia, a new study finds.
Genetic Origins of Earth’s First Farmers Confirmed
The earliest farmers came from a combination of two hunter-gatherer populations during a volatile period, not from a single group as one might imagine.
Stonehenge pits dating 10,000 years show the site was used much earlier than previously thought.
Archeologists have discovered hundreds of enormous hunting trenches beneath the Stonehenge landscape, revealing that humans have been using this world-famous prehistoric site for much longer than previously thought.