A new study, published in the Quaternary Newsletter journal, suggests that the Bristol Channel was a glacial transport route.
This is evidenced by a large glacial erratic discovered in Limeslade Bay, which has its origins in North Pembrokeshire. A…
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Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen before
Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update our understanding of the evolution and biology of these extinct ocean-dwelling…
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Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their skeletons
Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones.
Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls, researchers describe June 27 in…
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The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct
Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath.
Living on that island, isolated from other mammoths, could have led to fatal levels of inbreeding…
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What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation | MIT News
A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A single scale is as small as a speck of dust yet surprisingly complex, with a corrugated surface of…
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Can AI learn like us?
It reads. It talks. It collates mountains of data and recommends business decisions. Today’s artificial intelligence might seem more human than ever. However, AI still has several critical shortcomings.
“As impressive as ChatGPT and all these…
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Meet Lokiceratops, a newly discovered species of horned dinosaur
A newfound dinosaur species may not have been burdened with the glorious purpose of Loki — but it did bear an impressive set of horns reminiscent of the helmet of the trickster god of Norse mythology.
Fossils of the new specimen,…
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A railroad of cells | ScienceDaily
Looking under the microscope, a group of cells slowly moves forward in a line, like a train on the tracks. The cells navigate through complex environments. A new approach by researchers involving the Institute of Science and Technology Austria…
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Child sacrifices at famed Maya site were all boys, many closely related
Genetic clues have unveiled a type of ritual child sacrifice at an ancient Maya site that consisted only of young boys, often chosen as closely related pairs that included twins.
The discovery stems from a burial of more than 100…
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Peers crucial in shaping boys’ confidence in math skills
Boys are good at math, girls not so much? A study from the University of Zurich has analyzed the social mechanisms that contribute to the gender gap in math confidence. While peer comparisons seem to play a crucial role for boys, girls’…
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