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  • Once-in-a-lifetime discovery reveals dome-headed dinosaur headbutted to attract mates

    09/18/2025 9:53:10 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | September 18, 2025 | Mrigakshi Dixit
    This new species, named Zavacephale rinpoche, lived about 108 million years ago (Early Cretaceous period). Young Zavacephale duel for territory along a lakeshore 108 million years ago. Image: Masaya Hattori Arecent discovery in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has provided the most complete and oldest fossil of an iconic dome-headed dinosaur to date. This new species, named Zavacephale rinpoche, lived about 108 million years ago (Early Cretaceous period). Palaeontologists from North Carolina State University announced the findings on September 17, describing it as a “once-in-a-lifetime discovery.” It belongs to the group pachycephalosaurs — dinosaurs known for their unique head adornments, including domes...
  • Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be...They might just rewrite the history of human migration.

    09/05/2025 9:45:53 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | July 16, 2025 | Caroline Delbert
    Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: * Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. * Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils. * These human prints were surrounded by animals but not hunted animals, indicating humans were just thirsty. ======================================================================== A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say. The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric animal prints, are estimated to be 115,000 years old. Many fossil...
  • Greece’s Petralona Cave Skull May Date Back 500,000 Years, New Study Suggests

    08/20/2025 5:05:47 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | August 20, 2025 | Nisha Zahid
    A new study has provided the clearest picture yet of one of Europe’s most debated fossils — a nearly complete human skull discovered in Petralona Cave, northern Greece. The fossil, first unearthed in 1960, has long challenged scientists with questions about both its identity and its age. A skull unlike Neanderthals or modern humans The Petralona skull belongs to the Homo genus but stands apart from known groups. It shows marked differences from Neanderthals and modern humans, leaving researchers uncertain about where it fits in the evolutionary record. Its age has also been a source of dispute for decades, with...
  • Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced

    08/06/2025 1:03:52 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 20 replies
    Live Science ^ | July 3, 2025 | Kristina Killgrove
    ...archaeological evidence at one site called Madjedbebe in the far north of Australia's Northern Territory suggests the area may have been occupied much earlier -- at least 65,000 years ago.Archaeologists recovered human-made artifacts, including stone tools and ocher "crayons," from the Madjedbebe rock shelter and published their findings in a 2017 study. One difficulty in dating the artifacts, however, was the copious amount of sand on the floor of the rock shelter, which can move easily and cause artifacts to fall farther down, making them look older than they are.Although the research team took steps to counteract this issue and...
  • Paleontologists Discover Bizarre Half-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Treasure Trove in the Grand Canyon

    08/06/2025 5:39:12 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | August 06, 2025 | Sarah Collins, University of Cambridge
    Newly discovered Grand Canyon fossils capture a rare moment in Earth’s history when early animals flourished in a perfect evolutionary setting. Credit: Stock ============================================================================== Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils uncovered in the Grand Canyon show how evolution accelerated in resource-rich waters. An extraordinary cache of remarkably well-preserved ancient animals, dating back over 500 million years, has been unearthed in the Grand Canyon, one of the most renowned geological landmarks in the world. This groundbreaking discovery, the first of its kind in the Grand Canyon, features microscopic fossils of rock-grazing mollusks, filter-feeding crustaceans, worm-like creatures with spiked teeth, and even remnants of...
  • Genesis Impact (2020) | Full Movie [text transcribed using AI https://poe.com. Scripted exchange btwn science museum teacher and student challenging him. See comment]

    10/22/2023 1:46:00 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 14 replies
    [Video : Lead Actors: Reggie McGuire, Hannah Bradley. Secular museum docent (Reggie McGuire) presents his best case for evolution at the natural history museum, but little does he know that Christina (Hannah Bradley) has a few questions at the end of his talk that turn the tables…... Length: 67 Minutes [McGuire, beginning at 3:41 mark of vid] I encourage you to visit the exhibits that will help you visualize what we've discussed today. These exhibits should be marked in the maps that we provided for you. First, we have a wonderful exhibit that shows that apes and humans share about...
  • Scientists JUST Unearthed a 17,000-Year-Old CRO-MAGNON Mystery [18:00]

    07/22/2025 1:30:22 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 20 replies
    YouTube ^ | July 22, 2025 | Mysterious Origins
    Who killed Tagliente Man, a Cro-Magnon who lived in Italy 17,000 years ago? New analysis reveals evidence of violent intragroup conflict and targeted violence. Using archaeology and skeletal analysis, the video pieces together a story of prehistoric humans. Scientists JUST Unearthed a 17,000-Year-Old CRO-MAGNON Mystery | 18:00Mysterious Origins | 51.3K subscribers | 1,163 views | July 22, 2025 | Premiered 6 hours ago
  • Of Primates and Percentages: No, Humans Aren’t 99% Chimp Whether we are 99 or 84% similar to chimps genetically, there is clearly more going on than materialists can account for.

    10/01/2023 6:03:56 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 65 replies
    breakpoi ^ | 03/13/23 | John Stonestreet and Shane Morris
    In a recent discussion on The Discovery Institute’s ID the Future podcast, geologist Casey Luskin explained that the original “98-99%” figure was derived from a single protein-to-protein comparison before the chimp genome was sequenced. Since then, we’ve gained a great deal more precision. According to Luskin, humans and chimps have about 35 million single base-pair genetic differences and five million insertion-deletion differences. Humans also have 689 unique genes not found in chimps. And while there are different ways of quantifying the differences, almost none of these ways yield the famous “98-99%” number. For example, in 2018, Queen Mary University of...
  • Eastern moaMoa mōmona

    07/17/2025 9:39:19 PM PDT · by kawhill · 21 replies
    New Zealand Birds Online ^ | 1846 | Emeus crassus (Owen, 1846)
    Moa were nine species of giant flightless endemic birds that belonged to six genera grouped into three different families. They evolved into a wide variety of sizes to become the largest terrestrial herbivores in prehistoric New Zealand.
  • Century after man was convicted of teaching evolution, school religion debate rages

    07/10/2025 1:54:22 PM PDT · by Borges · 14 replies
    ABC - AP ^ | 7/10/25 | HOLLY MEYER
    One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial.” The case ballooned into a national spectacle, complete with a courthouse showdown between a renowned, agnostic defense attorney and a famous fundamentalist Christian politician who defended the Bible on the witness stand.
  • What did dinosaurs sound like?

    05/24/2025 8:14:55 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 41 replies
    bbc ^ | 05/23/2025 | Richard Gray
    There is no single answer to this puzzle. Dinosaurs dominated the planet for around 179 million years and during that time, evolved into an enormous array of different shapes and sizes. Some were tiny, like the diminutive Albinykus, which weighed under a kilogram (2.2lbs) and was probably less than 2ft (60cm) long. Others were among the biggest animals to have ever lived on land, such as the titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum, which may have weighed up to 72 tonnes. They ran on two legs, or plodded on four. And along with these diverse body shapes, they would have produced an equally...
  • ‘Homo bigheads’: Newfound human species roamed China’s woodlands with extra-large heads

    01/08/2025 2:51:46 PM PST · by airdalechief · 37 replies
    www.jpost.com ^ | DECEMBER 1, 2024 12:00 | By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
    Early humans of Homo juluensis had a large head shape, with measurements notably larger than those of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. Scientists have announced the discovery of a new human species, Homo juluensis, following extensive research published in Nature Communications. Professor Christopher J. Bae from the University of Hawaii and Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences led the study, which sheds light on the diversity of ancient human populations in East Asia.
  • Early human ancestor 'Lucy' was a bad runner, and this one tendon could explain why

    12/29/2024 11:19:26 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 60 replies
    Live Science ^ | published December 26, 2024 | Kristina Killgrove
    The human ability to walk and run efficiently on two feet arose around 2 million years ago with our Homo erectus ancestors. But our earlier relatives, the australopithecines, were also bipedal around 4 million years ago. Given the long arms and different body proportions of species like Australopithecus afarensis, though, researchers have assumed that australopithecines were less capable of walking on two legs than modern humans. In a study published online Dec. 18 in the journal Current Biology, a team of researchers modeled the skeletal and muscular anatomy of Lucy to determine her maximum running speed, the energetic costs associated...
  • 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman's Facial Reconstruction Sheds New Light on Our Archaic Human Ancestors

    05/03/2024 11:17:40 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 128 replies
    The Debrief ^ | May 3, 2024 | CHRISSY NEWTON
    In 2018, a female Neanderthal was discovered in the Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. Now, archaeologists from The University of Cambridge have unveiled the reconstructed face of the 75,000-year-old woman, based on the assembly of hundreds of individual bone fragments recovered during excavations. “Neanderthals have had a bad press ever since the first ones were found over 150 years ago,” said Professor Graeme Barker from Cambridge’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, who led the excavation at the cave where the woman’s remains were discovered. Neanderthals are believed to have become extinct around 40,000 years ago, and discoveries of their remains...
  • Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place

    03/27/2024 12:13:10 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 59 replies
    Accuweather ^ | Mar 25, 2024 1:55 PM CDT | By Mindy Weisberger, CNN
    Tails are useful in many ways, but — unlike these vervet monkeys pictured in Lake Mburo National Park in Uganda — humans' closest primate relatives lost the appendages about 25 million years ago. (Photo credit: imageBROKER/Shutterstock via CNN Newsource) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Humans have many wonderful qualities, but we lack something that’s a common feature among most animals with backbones: a tail. Exactly why that is has been something of a mystery. Tails are useful for balance, propulsion, communication and defense against biting insects. However, humans and our closest primate relatives — the great apes — said farewell to tails about 25...
  • Scientists discover 240-million-year-old dinosaur that resembles a "mythical Chinese dragon"

    02/23/2024 8:56:01 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    CBS News ^ | February 23, 2024 | Caitlin O'Kane
    A team of international scientists have discovered 240-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period in China that one scientist described as a "long and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon." The 16-foot-long aquatic reptile, called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, has 32 separate neck vertebrae – an extremely long neck, according to the National Museums of Scotland, which announced the news on Friday. The new fossil has a snake-like appearance and flippers and was found in the Guizhou Province of southern China. Dinocephalosaurus orientalis was first identified in 2003 when its skull was found, but this more complete fossil discovery has "allowed scientists to depict the...
  • Archaeologists Discover Intact 90,000-Year-Old Human Footprints on Moroccan Beach

    01/31/2024 6:21:07 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 24 replies
    Euronews ^ | 31/01/2024 | Theo Farrant & EBU
    In 2022, researchers stumbled upon the footprint site near the northern tip of North Africa while examining boulders at a nearby pocket beach. A team of archaeologists have unveiled the discovery of the oldest human footprints ever recorded in North Africa and the southern Mediterranean. The footprints, dating back an astonishing 90,000 years, were found on a beach in Larache, Morocco, by a multinational team led by Moncef Essedrati, a research professor and laboratory director at the French University of Southern Brittany. "Between tides, I said to my team that we should go north to explore another beach," Essedrati told...
  • Mystery solved: the oldest fossil reptile from the alps is an historical forgery

    02/16/2024 10:34:30 AM PST · by Red Badger · 44 replies
    University College Cork ^ | 16 Feb 2024 | Staff
    Dr Valentina Rossi of University College Cork, Ireland, who led the research team which discovered that a 280-million-year-old lizard fossil is, in part, a forgery. (Image credit: Zixiao Yang) A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be, in part, a forgery following new examination of the remnants. The discovery has led the team led by Dr Valentina Rossi of University College Cork, Ireland (UCC) to urge caution in how the fossil is used in future research. Tridentinosaurus antiquus was discovered in the Italian alps in 1931 and was thought to be an important specimen...
  • Human and ape ancestors arose in Europe, not in Africa, controversial study claims

    09/02/2023 9:51:08 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 67 replies
    Live Science ^ | late August 2023 | Charles Q. Choi
    A newly described fossil suggests that the ancestor of humans and apes arose in Europe, not in Africa...In the new study, the researchers analyzed a newly identified ape fossil from the 8.7 million-year-old site of Çorakyerler in central Anatolia. They dubbed the species Anadoluvius turkae. "Anadolu" is the modern Turkish word for Anatolia, and "turk" refers to Turkey.The fossil suggests that A. turkae likely weighed about 110 to 130 pounds (50 to 60 kilograms), or about the weight of a large male chimpanzee.Based on the fossils of other animals found alongside it — such as giraffes, warthogs, rhinos, antelope, zebras,...
  • Human origin story may need rewriting after discovery of 8.7-million-year-old fossil

    08/24/2023 11:38:57 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 50 replies
    Daily Express US (via MSN.com) ^ | 24 August 2023 | Ian Randall
    Prof. Begun said: "Our findings further suggest that hominines [bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas] not only evolved in western and central Europe - but spent over five million years evolving there and spreading to the eastern Mediterranean before eventually dispersing into Africa."....This migration, he added, was "probably a consequence of changing environments and diminishing forests."