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…
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara
The recalled product was distributed nationally through the online platforms, Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Target, and the company's websites, tnvitamins.com and doctorspride.com. Published: June 12, 2026, 10:11 pm Total Nutrition Inc. of Deer Park, NY is voluntarily expanding its recall of TNVitamins and Doctor's Pride Ultra Potent Complete Green Superfood Moringa Capsules because they have