By Colin Barras This ancient burial style is difficult to understand A.M. Herrero-Corral, et al. AN UNUSUAL 3700-year-old grave unearthed in Spain shows how little we know about some ancient burial practices. At the Humanejos site, 20 kilometres south of Madrid, there are about 100 ancient tombs. None is quite as strange as grave 31.…
Humans 9 July 2020 By Joshua Rapp Learn An ancient mammoth tusk found in Siberia has images of camels engraved in itYury Esin/F. Monna Ancient engravings etched into mammoth tusks discovered in Siberia reveal the oldest known images of camels in Asia. Images of two-humped camels have been found etched onto a 1.5-metre mammoth tusk…
By Michael Le Page Sled dogs have a long lineageCarsten Egevang / Qimmeq The 9500-year-old remains of a dog found on a remote island off Siberia are remarkably similar to living sled dogs in Greenland, genome sequencing has revealed. The discovery shows that people bred dogs for pulling sleds more than 10,000 years ago. “We thought…
By Layal Liverpool Trackways at the Sacheon Jahye-ri site, which may have been made by an ancient crocodile on two legsKyung Soo Kim, Chinju National University of Education, Kyungnam, South Korea. Ancient footprints first thought to belong to a pterosaur may actually have been formed by a large bipedal ancestor of crocodiles that lived about…
By Leah Crane A sabre-toothed anchovy being caught by an early whaleJoschua Knüppe Huge sabre-toothed anchovies once hunted other fish through the seas. They may have evolved because the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also wiped out many of the world’s marine predators, providing an opportunity for the metre-long anchovies to take their place. Alessio…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same