Ancient

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…