Fossil expands ancient fish family tree
A second ancient lungfish has been discovered in Africa, adding another piece to the jigsaw of evolving aquatic life forms more than 400 million years ago. Illustration of the newly described lungfish Isityumzi (lower right) and other Late Devonian freshwater ecosystem creatures including an early tetrapod (Unzantsia) [Credit: Maggie Newman]The new fossil lungfish genus (Isityumzi mlomomde) was found about 10,000km from a previous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scientists uncover world's oldest forest
Scientists have discovered remnants of the world's oldest fossil forest in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York. The rooting system of the ancient tree Archaeopteris at the Cairo fossil Forest site [Credit: Charles Ver Straeten]It is believed the extensive network of trees, which would have spread from New York all the way into Pennsylvania and beyond, is around 386 million years old. This makes the Cairo forest around 2 or 3... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Origin story: Rewriting human history through DNA
For most of our evolutionary history—for most of the time anatomically modern humans have been on Earth—we've shared the planet with other species of humans. It's only been in the last 30,000 years, the mere blink of an evolutionary eye, that modern humans have occupied the planet as the sole representative of the hominin lineage. Joshua Akey, a professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, uses a research method... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
New archaeological discoveries reveal birch bark tar was used in medieval England
Scientists from the University of Bristol and the British Museum, in collaboration with Oxford Archaeology East and Canterbury Archaeological Trust, have, for the first time, identified the use of birch bark tar in medieval England - the use of which was previously thought to be limited to prehistory. Skeleton from grave 293, Anglo-Saxon child burial [Credit: Oxford Archaeology East]Birch bark tar is a manufactured product with a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A unique perspective on (pre)historical migration using linguistics
Migration is not only reflected in DNA, but also in language. By tracing changes in language, we learn more about the lifestyle of the people that speak it. University lecturer Tijmen Pronk (40) conducts linguistic research into (pre)historical migration. Rock Art of the San People [Credit: SPL]"When people move, their languages move with them," says Pronk. "When migration takes place in larger groups, there is a chance that a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Get ready for a new periodic table
Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia's Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. "I saw in a dream a table where all elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper," Mendeleev recalled. The Making of a Quantum Dot "Molecule" [Credit: Meirav Oded & Somnath Koley]Fast forward... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Would a deep-Earth water cycle change our understanding of planetary evolution?
Every school child learns about the water cycle--evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. But what if there were a deep Earth component of this process happening on geologic timescales that makes our planet ideal for sustaining life as we know it? A tiny sample of stishovite used by the researchers in the lab [Credit: Yanhao Lin]New work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegie's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Global mountain gorilla population grows to 1,063
Survey results released today from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, and the contiguous Sarambwe Nature Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have confirmed that the mountain gorilla population in the forest has grown to 459, providing further evidence that conservation efforts to protect the planet's greatest apes are working. This brings the global number of confirmed mountain gorillas to 1,063, when combined with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Southern white rhinos are threatened by incest and habitat fragmentation
The fragmentation of natural habitats by fences and human settlements is threatening the survival of the white rhinoceros. It prevents dispersal from the family group and leads to mating among close relatives. Additionally female rhinoceros favour individual males for mating over others and sire several offspring with the same partner over consecutive breeding periods. These factors lead to a high degree of inbreeding. The results come... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Birds' seasonal migrations shift earlier as climate changes, new research shows
In what the authors believe is one of the first studies to examine climate change impact on the timing of bird migration on a continental scale, researchers report that spring migrants were likely to pass certain stops earlier now than they would have 20 years ago. Also, temperature and migration timing were closely aligned, with the greatest changes in migration timing occurring in the regions warming most rapidly. Timing shifts were... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Planetary boundaries: Interactions in the Earth system amplify human impacts
What we do to one part of our Earth system does not just add to what we do to other parts: "We found a dense network of interactions between the planetary boundaries," says Johan Rockstrom, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study. Two core boundaries - climate change and biosphere integrity - contribute more than half the combined strengths of all the interactions in that network, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How does our Milky Way galaxy get its spiral form?
A question that has long puzzled scientists is how our Milky Way galaxy which has an elegant spiral shape with long arms, took this form. Universities Space Research Association today announced that new observations of another galaxy are shedding light on how spiral-shaped galaxies like our own get their iconic shape. SOFIA studied our galaxy using far-infrared light (89 microns) to reveal facets of its magnetic fields that previous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought
Nothing seems safe from plastic contamination. A new study by NSF-funded researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests there could be a million times more pieces of plastic in the ocean than previously estimated. Scientists measured microplastics found in salps, pictured here [Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography]Biological oceanographer Jennifer Brandon found some of the tiniest microplastics in seawater at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hubble views galaxy's dazzling display
NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (the Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the frame in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with its mix of bright patches of glowing gas, dark lanes of dust, bright core, and whirling, pinwheeling arms coming together to paint a beautiful celestial scene. NGC 3175 [Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.]The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Secret passage discovered in Maya city of Uxmal
Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered a walled-up passage in the Governor’s Palace, in the Uxmal Archaeological Zone, which is 25 meters long and is estimated to date from 670 – 770 of our era, when the early Puuc (Temprano) style flourished. Credit: Mauricio Marat, INAHThey also found a Chaac mask and vestiges of three old staircases. Currently, archaeologists Jose Huchim and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
75 million-year-old sea turtle fossil sheds light on evolution of its modern relatives
Paleontologists in Alabama have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of fossil sea turtle that may fill an important gap in the evolution of sea turtles. Credit: University of Alabama at BirminghamScientists named the animal Asmodochelys parhami for Asmodeus, a deity that, according to Islamic lore, was entombed in stone at the bottom of the sea, and "parhami" in honor of James F. Parham, former curator of Paleontology... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fossils of the future to mostly consist of humans, domestic animals
As the number and technology of humans has grown, their impact on the natural world now equals or exceeds those of natural processes, according to scientists. Decaying road kill deer [Credit: Karen Koy, Missouri Western State University]Many researchers formally name this period of human-dominance of natural systems as the Anthropocene era, but there is a heated debate over whether this naming should take place and when the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
In ancient Scottish tree rings, a cautionary tale on climate, politics and survival
Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold period in Scotland in the 1690s that caused immense suffering. It decimated agriculture, killed as much as 15 percent of the population and sparked a fatal attempt to establish a Scottish colony in southern Panama. The researchers say the episode--shown in their study to have been during the coldest decade of the past 750... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
High-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography
A University of California, Irvine-led team of glaciologists has unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica's ice sheet -- and, by doing so, has helped identify which regions of the continent are going to be more, or less, vulnerable to future climate warming. "Ultimately, BedMachine Antarctica presents a mixed picture: Ice streams in some areas are relatively well-protected by their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mars global wind patterns mapped for first time
A paper published in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local observations, rather than indirect measurements, unlike many prior measurements taken on Earth's upper atmosphere. But it didn't happen on Earth: it happened on Mars. On top of that, all the data came from an instrument and a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The return to Venus and what it means for Earth
Sue Smrekar really wants to go back to Venus. In her office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the planetary scientist displays a 30-year-old image of Venus' surface taken by the Magellan spacecraft, a reminder of how much time has passed since an American mission orbited the planet. The image reveals a hellish landscape: a young surface with more volcanoes than any other body in the solar system, gigantic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
2019 excavations in Nea Paphos concluded
The Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project recently conducted its 19th excavation season at the World Heritage listed site of the Hellenistic-Roman theatre of Nea Paphos. Nea Paphos was the capital of Cyprus during the Ptolemaic and Early Roman periods and the theatre was one of the grandest public buildings in the city. It was constructed in c. 300 BC during the foundation of the city, and was used for performance and spectacles for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Archaeologists find princely tombs near 'Griffin Warrior' in Pylos
Archaeologists with the University of Cincinnati have discovered two Bronze Age tombs containing a trove of engraved jewelry and artifacts that promise to unlock secrets about life in ancient Greece. UC archaeologists discovered two large family tombs at Pylos, Greece, strewn with flakes of gold that once lined their walls. The excavation took more than 18 months [Credit: UC Classics]Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker, archaeologists... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Study refutes the similarities between the teeth of Denisovans and modern Asians
An article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with participation by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) refutes the similarities between the teeth of modern Asians and the Denisovans, an extinct human population that coexisted with Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals and whose DNA is present in 4-6 percent of the current populations of Australia, Melanesia and Papua New... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Central Iberia had a tundra-steppe landscape around 35,000 years ago
A study just published by the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, headed by Nohemi Sala, an expert on taphonomy at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), presents the results of the investigations carried out in the cave site of Portalón del Tejadilla in Segovia, which confirm a cold and extremely arid climate at a latitude never previously documented in the Iberian Peninsula. Excavations at Cueva de... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Stone-age 'chewing-gum' yields human DNA
Danish scientists have managed to extract a complete human DNA sample from a piece of birch pitch more than 5,000 years old, used as a kind of chewing gum, a recently published study has revealed. Researchers in Denmark recovered human DNA from a 5,700-year-old piece of birch pitch used as a kind of 'chewing gum [Credit: Theis Jensen/AFP]The Stone-Age sample yielded enough information to determine the source's sex, what she had last... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Celebrated ancient Egyptian woman physician likely never existed
For decades, an ancient Egyptian known as Merit Ptah has been celebrated as the first female physician and a role model for women entering medicine. Yet a researcher from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus now says she never existed and is an example of how misconceptions can spread. Merit Ptah is often called the first woman doctor, CU Anschutz researcher calls it a case of mistaken identity [Credit: University of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fossil shells reveal both global mercury contamination and warming when dinosaurs perished
The impact of an asteroid or comet is acknowledged as the principal cause of the mass extinction that killed off most dinosaurs and about three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal species 66 million years ago. A well-preserved shell of the extinct oyster Exogyra costata, common to the southeastern United States and retrieved from along the Tombigbee River near Moscow Landing, Alabama. This specimen is 66 million to 72... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future
Research on global biodiversity has long assumed that present-day biodiversity patterns reflect present-day factors, namely contemporary climate and human activities. A new study shows that climate changes and human impacts over the last 100,000 years continue to shape patterns of tropical and subtropical mammal biodiversity today -- a surprising finding. The tropics and subtropics cradle the vast majority of the world's remaining... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Following the lizard lung labyrinth
Take a deep breath in. Slowly let it out. You have just participated in one of the most profound evolutionary revolutions on Earth--breathing air on land. It's unclear how the first vertebrates thrived after crawling out of the sea nearly 400 million years ago, but the lungs hold an important clue. Savannah monitor lizard [Credit: University of Utah]Birds, reptiles, mammals and birds have evolved diverse lung structures through which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Researchers reconstruct spoken words as processed in nonhuman primate brains
A team of Brown University researchers has used a brain-computer interface to reconstruct English words from neural signals recorded in the brains of nonhuman primates. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications Biology, could be a step toward developing brain implants that may help people with hearing loss, the researchers say. Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
When flowers reached Australia
New research has revealed that Australia's oldest flowering plants are 126 million years old and may have resembled modern magnolias, buttercups and laurels. Rocks containing microscopic fossil pollen were collected to determine the age of fossil leaves from Castle Cove, Otway Ranges, Victoria [Credit: Vera Korasidis]Undertaken by University of Melbourne palynologist, Dr Vera Korasidis, the study also found that Australia's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bite marks in fossils reveal demise of our early relatives
New fossil data show that our fishy ancestors may have risen to dominance by becoming predators of their ancient jawless cousins. Predation of heterostracans by Panderichthys in a Devonian ocean [Credit: Julio Lacerda]Palaeontologists at The University of Manchester have revealed the changing pattern in bite marks in fossil record of early vertebrates through time, and unlocked the circumstances of our own evolution. Almost all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
New fossil data show that our fishy ancestors may have risen to dominance by becoming predators of their ancient jawless cousins. Predation of heterostracans by Panderichthys in a Devonian ocean [Credit: Julio Lacerda]Palaeontologists at The University of Manchester have revealed the changing pattern in bite marks in fossil record of early vertebrates through time, and unlocked the circumstances of our own evolution. Almost all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
3-D scanning of sandstone fossil reveals oldest known record of amphibian tracks in the UK
A new paper has revealed an ancient trackway, found imprinted on a block of sandstone from the base of Hardraw Force Waterfall in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, is the oldest record of amphibian tracks in the UK dating back 340 million years. Colour image of Hardraw slab [Credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum]The trace fossil, currently on display at the Natural History Museum, was 3-D scanned in order to visualise it in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Genetic 'clock' predicts lifespan in vertebrates
A model that uses genetic markers to accurately estimate the lifespans of different vertebrate species is presented in a study in Scientific Reports this week. The 'lifespan clock' screens 42 selected genes for CpG sites, short pieces of DNA whose density is correlated with lifespan, to predict how long members of a given vertebrate species may live. Lonesome George, a century-old Pinta Island tortoise, or Abingdon Island tortoise,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Carolina parakeet extinction was driven by human causes, DNA sequencing reveals
Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, a joint institute of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) in Barcelona and the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen have unveiled the genome of the Carolina parakeet, declared extinct at the beginning of the 20th century. Researchers explored the genome for signs found in endangered species but did not find them,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scientists link decline of Baltic cod to hypoxia - and climate change
If you want to know how climate change and hypoxia -- the related loss of oxygen in the world's oceans -- affect fish species such as the economically important Baltic cod, all you have to do is ask the fish. Those cod, at least, will tell you that hypoxia is making them smaller, scrawnier and less valuable. A Baltic Sea cod [Credit: Yvette Heimbrand, SLU]"The cod themselves are telling us through their 'internal logbooks' that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ice in motion: Satellites capture decades of change
New time-lapse videos of Earth's glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space -- some spanning nearly 50 years -- are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet's frozen regions are changing. At the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists released new time series of images of Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica using data from satellites including the NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Ben Linzmeier holds a fossilized clam shell found while trekking through the Lopez de Bertodano Formation, a well-preserved, fossil-rich area on the west side of Seymour Island in Antarctica [Credit: Northwestern University]The study, led by researchers at Northwestern University, is the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Experiments in dinosaur evolution
A new find from Patagonia sheds light on the evolution of large predatory dinosaurs. Features of the 8-m long specimen from the Middle Jurassic suggest that it records a phase of rapid diversification and evolutionary experimentation. An intimidating sight: Asfaltovenator vialidadi [Credit: Gabriel Lio]In life, it must have been an intimidating sight. The dimensions of the newly discovered dinosaur fossil suggest that this individual... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Research confirms timing of tropical glacier melt at the end of the last ice age
Tropical glaciers in Africa and South America began their retreat simultaneously at the end of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago, according to a Dartmouth study. Field research on glacial moraines in the Rwenzori Mountains confirms how the tropics transformed during one of Earth's most extreme climate change events and can help current-day predictions of our own climate future [Credit: Margaret Jackson]The finding of synchrony... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
'Basilica of Mysteries' reborn in Rome
The so-called 'Basilica of the Mysteries', one of the most magical and mystery-shrounded underground locales in Rome, has been restored with funding from Swiss foundation Evergete. Credit: Cecilia Fabiano/La PresseThe restoration has restored the whole northern wall of the lefthand nave, with its refined decorations, and the blazing whiteness of its stucco work mixed with mother of pearl. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle ||... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hubble spots galaxy's dramatic details
Some of the most dramatic events in the universe occur when certain stars die—and explode catastrophically in the process. Galaxy NGC 5468 [Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Li et al.]Such explosions, known as supernovae, mainly occur in a couple of ways. In one scenario, a massive star depletes its fuel at the end of its life, becoming dynamically unstable and unable to support its bulk, causing it to collapse inward and violently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Roman artefacts from Stockstadt am Main in Bavaria digitally recorded
In an extensive project, archaeologists at Goethe University processed and digitally recorded Roman artefacts from Stockstadt am Main (Bavaria). The work lays the groundwork for future research and a new conceptualizing of the museum in Stockstadt. Sigillata bowl from Gaul, 2nd Century AD [Credit: Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main]Where Stockstadt am Main is located today, one of the most important locations of the Roman Main-Limes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away
The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade - and possibly sooner - due to climate change, a new study has found. The glacier in 2010, during a drilling expedition to recover ice cores from the glacier [Credit: Lonnie Thompson]The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are "the canaries in the coal mine" for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, said Lonnie Thompson, one of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Asian water towers are world's most important and most threatened
Scientists from around the world have assessed the planet's 78 mountain glacier-based water systems. For the first time, they ranked them in order of their importance to adjacent lowland communities while assessing their vulnerability to future environmental and socioeconomic changes. These systems, known as mountain water towers, store and transport water via glaciers, snow packs, lakes and streams, thereby supplying invaluable water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scientists find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxies
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University have found a special population of dwarf galaxies that could mainly consist baryons within radii of up to tens of thousands of light-years. This contrasts with the normal expectation that such regions should instead be dominated by dark matter. This figure illustrates structure in the simulated... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Enceladus got its stripes
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is of great interest to scientists due to its subsurface ocean, making it a prime target for those searching for life elsewhere. New research led by Carnegie's Doug Hemingway reveals the physics governing the fissures through which oceanwater erupts from the moon's icy surface, giving its south pole an unusual "tiger stripe" appearance. First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, Enceladus' "tiger stripes"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How planets may form after dust sticks together
Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help to improve industrial processes. Glass particles colliding in microgravity [Credit: Steinpilz, T. et al., 2019]In homes, adhesion on contact can cause fine particles to form dust bunnies. Similarly in outer space, adhesion causes dust particles to stick together. Large particles, however,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Astrophysicists discover a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structure
Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic field of which is apparent only when the star is seen under a certain angle relative to the observer. Previously, all neutron stars could be grouped into two big families: the first one included objects where the magnetic field manifests... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ancient tomb clusters unearthed in Eastern China
Archaeologists have excavated 73 ancient tombs dating back 1,400 years ago in east China's Jiangxi Province, the local institute of cultural relics and archaeology said this week. It is believed that the majority of the discovered tombs were built in the Six Dynasties (222-589). Credit: Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The 8,000-square-metre site, located in Ganjiang... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Nine Bronze Age figurines unearthed in Orkney
A team from ORCA Archaeology has discovered an amazing series of half-metre tall stone-carved objects while completing exploratory archaeological excavations connected with the development of an electrical substation on behalf of SSEN Transmission in Orkney. Two of the figurines before cleaning, Finstown, Orkney [Credit: ORCA Archaeology]In total, nine carved stones have been unearthed in the remains of a structure revealed at the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Researchers discover mysterious holes in the seafloor off Central California
During a recent survey of the deep seafloor off Big Sur, MBARI researchers discovered thousands of mysterious holes or pits in the seafloor. Scientists and resource managers want to understand how these pits formed because this area is the site of a proposed wind-energy farm. Researchers Eve Lundsten and Charles Paull describe their discovery this week at the Fall 2019 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
