Stone tools dug up in western Ukraine date to about 1.4 million years ago, making them the earliest evidence of human presence in Europe, researchers report Wednesday in the journalNature. While modern humans likely didn’t make the tools, researchers suggest the closely...
Fossil Coniopterygidae are numerous, occurring almost exclusively in amber. They are known from Barremian Lebanese amber (Whalley1980; Azar et al.2000); Albian El Soplao amber, Spain (Pérez-de la Fuente et al.2019); upper Albian Charentese amber, France (Nel et al.2005); mid-Cretaceous...
(Kotias, Satsurbia etc), ancient samples from the South Caucasus (Alkhantepe, Arslantepe, Armenia_Chalcolithic), individuals of the West Eurasian steppe (Khvalynsk, DereivkaI, Lebyazhinka VI, Ukraine_Mesolithic), and other samples from adjacent areas of previous, synchronous, and later ...
Egypt's tourist industry was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and is currently suffering from the fallout from the war in Ukraine. Both Russia and Ukraine formerly comprised a large source of tourists visiting Egypt. This story was reported from Los Angeles. The Associated Press contribut...
"It wasn't until a few years ago that we even had evidence of ancient orchids because there wasn't anything preserved in the fossil record," said George Poinar, Jr., a professor emeritus of entomology in the College of Science at Oregon State University (OSU) and lead author on the stud...
Egypt's tourist industry was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and is currently suffering from the fallout from the war in Ukraine. Both Russia and Ukraine formerly comprised a large source of tourists visiting Egypt. This story was reported from Los Angeles. The Associated Press contributed. ...
Daniela Triadan at the University of Arizona in Tucson and her colleagues have described for the first time how they conducted an airborne survey using lidar, a remote sensing method that uses lasers to create a 3D map of the surface below, to scan the ground in Tabasco state in sout...
SYDNEY, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The oldest evolved rocks on Earth are the consequence of asteroids colliding with the Earth 4 billion years ago, according to research released by Australia's Curtin University on Tuesday. The study suggests that the rocks, part of the Acasta Gneiss Complex in no...
University of Chicago space historian Jordan Bimm said the passenger makeup is truly remarkable. Imagine if the head of NASA decided he wanted to launch in 1961 instead of Alan Shepard on the first U.S. spaceflight, he said in an email. ...
"This is a study that has been in the works ... for a long time," Joe Moysiuk, a PhD candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto, said in an interview. "We've uncovered the oldest large swimming jellyfish that we know of in...