21st century technology cracks alchemists' secret recipe November 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 127 vote(s)
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A 500-year old mystery surrounding the centerpiece of the alchemists' lab kit has been solved by UCL (University College London) and Cardiff University archaeologists. | |
 Last Parthenon marbles threatened by pollution: archaeologist April 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A senior Greek archaeologist warned this week that the last original sculptures still adorning the Parthenon, Athens' iconic ancient temple, face a major pollution threat and must be removed to a museum. | |
 Lemur's Little Finger Poses a Mystery March 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Analysis of the first hand bones belonging to an ancient lemur has revealed a mysterious joint structure that has scientists puzzled. | |
Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands March 20, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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One of the oldest and most complete plesiosaur fossils recovered in North America, and the oldest yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period, represents a new genus of the prehistoric aquatic predator according to University ... | |
Good luck indeed: 53 million-year-old rabbit's foot bones found March 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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One day last spring, fossil hunter and anatomy professor Kenneth Rose, Ph.D. was displaying the bones of a jackrabbit’s foot as part of a seminar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine when something about the ... | |
Scientists say early Americans arrived earlier March 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A team led by two Texas A&M University anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines. | |
 Oldest DNA Ever Recovered Suggests Earth Was Warmer July 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 83 vote(s)
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Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and, like southern Sweden today, had a relatively mild climate. Eske Willerslev, a professor at Copenhagen ... | |
New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be the ... | |
 Retired FSU Professor Captures a 'Living Fossil' on Video June 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired Florida ... | |
Dramatic shift from simple to complex marine ecosystems occurred 250M years ago at mass extinction November 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than ... | |
 480 million-year-old fossil sheds light on 150-year-old paleontological mystery January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal’s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre ... | |
Micronesian Islands colonized by small-bodied humans March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Since the reporting of the so-called “hobbit” fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason, in stature, or whether ... | |
Ancient marble staircase found in Rome April 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Italian archeologists said an ancient staircase made of marble was uncovered during excavations beneath Rome's Piazza Venezia. | |
 Earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe discovered January 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Modern humans who first arose in Africa had moved into Europe as far back as about 45,000 years ago, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ... | |
 Vikings did not dress the way we thought February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, ... | |
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