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Neanderthals 'enjoyed broad menu'
(Sep 24, 2008)
It seems Neanderthals enjoyed a wide range of foods – a much
broader menu than had previously been supposed. Excavations in caves
in Gibraltar once occupied by the ancient humans show they ate seal
and dolphin [photo is of a dolphin vertebra found in one of the caves]
when they could get hold of the animals. There are even indications
that mussels were warmed to open their shells.
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more. Source: BBC |
Did we out-breed slow-maturing Neanderthals?
(Sep 9, 2008)
Neanderthal women had just as much trouble in childbirth as modern
women – and their kids took just as long to grow up. Christoph
Zollikofer and colleagues at the University of Zürich, Switzerland,
have done the first three-dimensional reconstructions of the skulls
of a newborn Neanderthal from Russia, and two toddlers from Syria.
They found that the newborn's cranium was the same diameter as a modern
human's.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Ancient trees recorded in mines
(Sep 9, 2008)
Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois
by a US-UK team of researchers. The group reported one discovery last
year, but has since identified a further five examples. The ancient
vegetation – now turned to rock – is visible in the ceilings
of mines covering thousands of hectares.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
'Rare' mammoth skull discovered
(Sep 2, 2008)
The "extremely rare" fossilised skull of a steppe mammoth has been
unearthed in southern France. The discovery in the Auvergne region
could shed much needed light on the evolution of these mighty beasts.
Many isolated teeth of steppe mammoth have been found, but only a
handful of skeletons exist; and in these surviving specimens, the
skull is rarely intact.
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more. Source: BBC |
Tech-savvy Neanderthals couldn't blame their
tools
(Aug 27, 2008)
Neanderthal stock is on the rise. A slew of recent studies have argued
that the not-quite modern humans hunted, painted and communicated
like their Homo sapiens cousins. Now new research suggests that Neanderthal
technology was at least as good as that of early humans.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Fossils date Dry Valleys' origin
(Jul 23, 2008)
Tiny fossils have helped refine the timing of the climate shift that
gave rise to Antarctica's remarkable Dry Valleys, a landscape akin
to Mars. The famously ice-free terrain enjoyed more benign, tundra-like
conditions 14 million years ago – but then flipped to the intensely
cold setting seen today. A Royal Society journal reports that their
ancient lake-living shrimp-like creatures pinpoint the big switch.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
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