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Efficient Hunting Gets More Ancient: Stone-Tipped Weapons Were Used 500,000 Years Ago

... that hafted spear tips were also used in the early Middle Pleistocene, a period associated with Homo heidelbergensis , the last common ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2012 - 5:02pm - 0 attachments

Why Europe’s Pleistocene Hippos Shrank To Pygmy Size

...  P alaeontologists blame global cooling during the Pleistocene Era, which may have forced Europe’s hippos to shrink to pygmy ... years, all through the climatically turbulent time of the Pleistocene era, which witnessed 17 glacial events. The experience of such ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2012 - 11:00am - 0 attachments

Like Being Human? Thank Meat

... indirectly that by at least the early Pleistocene meat had become so essential to proper hominin functioning that its ... of very young hominin children are so rare in the early Pleistocene fossil record of East Africa, the occurrence of porotic ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2012 - 10:11am - 0 attachments

Neolithic Dentistry In 4,500 B.C.

...  It was discovered with  Upper Pleistocene fauna remains and is considered one of the most ancient ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2012 - 12:00pm - 0 attachments

Titanoboa - Titanic Boa Fossil From Colombia Is World's Largest Snake

Excavations in Colombia co-organized by Carlos Jaramillo, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, hav ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2009 - 12:33pm - 0 attachments

The Mathematical Probability Of Life On Other Earth-Like Planets

Infinity was invented to account for the possibility that in a never-ending universe, anything can happen. Life on other Earth-like planets, for example, is possible in an infinite universe, but not probable, according to a scientist from the Universit ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2008 - 10:14am - 0 attachments

KNM-ER Updated: Pleistocene Fossils Shed New Light On Early Human Evolution

... early Homo lived alongside Homo erectus during the Pleistocene epoch. 1470's unusual morphology was attributed by some scientists ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2012 - 4:00pm - 0 attachments

Polar Bears Genetic Ancestry Traced Back 600,000 Years

... brown bear that lived some 150,000 years ago, in the late Pleistocene. Researchers recently took an in-depth look at the genetic ... DNA indicates that polar bears actually evolved in the mid Pleistocene, some 600,000 years ago - much more time for the polar bear ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2012 - 10:49am - 0 attachments

Pseudopulex Jurassicus: Giant Insects Annoyed Dinosaurs Also

Giant flea-like animals, possibly the oldest of their type ever discovered, bit creatures much larger than they are 165 million years ago - and lived to talk about it. These flea-like animals, were similar to modern fleas but 10 times the size of ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2012 - 3:30am - 0 attachments

To Adapt Throughout Deep Time, Stay Diversified

... years ago and ending 12,000 years ago with the terminal Pleistocene extinction (when mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, giant sloths and ... were one of the "megafauna" that went extinct during the Pleistocene extinction. According to the first study of mammal range and ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2012 - 8:30pm - 0 attachments