Trilobite Fossil Reveals World’s Oldest Cannibalism, What Animal Is It? It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. But before there were dogs — or even dinosaurs — there were trilobites brutally biting each other on the Cambrian seafloor. New research has revealed that these armoured predators didn’t only hunt smaller and weaker animals for food, but … Continue reading Trilobite Fossil Reveals World’s Oldest Cannibalism, What Animal Is It? →

Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans? Our Milky Way galaxy contains tens of billions of potentially habitable planets, but we have no idea whether we’re alone. For now, Earth is the only world known to harbour life, and among all the living things on our planet, we assume Homo sapiens is the … Continue reading Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans? →

Experiments show why early humans began adding handles to tools A team of researchers at the University of Liverpool has tested the assumption that hafted tools (those with handles) provided early humans with enough benefit to warrant their construction and use. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the group describes … Continue reading Experiments show why early humans began adding handles to tools →

How the ancient Greeks proved Earth was round over 2,000 years ago Long before NASA was sending satellites up into space, the ancient Greeks developed a way to determine the world was spherical over 2000 years ago. Despite it being obvious that the world is has a round spherical shape, ‘flat-earthers’ will live and die … Continue reading How the ancient Greeks proved Earth was round over 2,000 years ago →

How The Human Face Might Look In 100,000 Years According to reports, scientists have succeeded in creating the image of the future’s human face, and we now know what our species will probably look like in the near future. But how much has our face changed since humans appeared on Earth? Humankind’s ‘face’ has changed … Continue reading How The Human Face Might Look In 100,000 Years →

Mathematical Discovery Could Shed Light On Secrets Of The Universe A grand challenge in modern theoretical physics is to find a ‘unified theory’ that can describe all the laws of nature within a single framework — connecting Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which describes the universe on a large scale, and quantum mechanics, which describes … Continue reading Mathematical Discovery Could Shed Light On Secrets Of The Universe →

Palau’s green pyramids: could be a geo-archaeological project According to oral tradition, a huge serpent wound around the hills on the Palauan island and created the terraces with her body. But how did the monumental earthworks on Babeldaob really come about? Researchers from the Institute for Ecosystem Research at Kiel University (CAU), in collaboration with … Continue reading Palau’s green pyramids: could be a geo-archaeological project →

The world’s smallest elephants led unusually long lives Ancient elephants that would have been born the size of a puppy lived for decades more than previously thought. Researchers studying an ancient miniature elephant that lived on Mediterranean islands found it could have lived for over 68 years, which is unusually long for a mammal of … Continue reading The world’s smallest elephants led unusually long lives →

Archaeologists Will Study Life on the International Space Station A group of researchers has launched the first-ever archaeological study of humans in space, observing the lives of the crew living on the International Space Station. The experiment, which will analyze and document the unique “MicroSociety in a mini-world,” began this week with associate professors Alice … Continue reading Archaeologists Will Study Life on the International Space Station →