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Did scientists unearth another ancient human lineage in China?

Scientists in China may have found an entirely new lineage of ancient humans after studying fragments of the mandible, skull and leg bones of a fossilised hominid that dates back to at least 300,000 years ago.

The Hindu

The world’s greatest and other such cheerful lies

Father’s Day is an occasion for receiving socks and ties and T-shirts as gifts, which is wonderful if you are running out of these, but not when the collection keeps growing and you have to finally give the lot away.

The Hindu

Extreme cooling ’caused extinction of early humans in Europe 1.1m years ago’

The findings challenge the idea of continuous early human occupation of Europe, the researchers said.

The Independent UK

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200-Million-Year-Old Poop Contains Fossilized Parasite Eggs

A coprolite, or fossilized feces, from Thailand contains at least two types of parasite eggs, showing a glimpse of the prehistoric food chain.

Inverse

These 239 Million-Year-Old Fossils Could Help Us Hunt Aliens on Mars

A recent study compares cracks in ancient lava to environments that may be hiding traces of past life on Mars.

Inverse

Plastic rocks, plutonium, and chicken bones: the markers we’re laying down in deep time

An article on how we can five of the geological markers we’re leaving for the future.

The Hindu

Why Ancient Marine Reptiles Were Like Modern Whales

A remarkable new fossil, discovered in China, allows scientists to explore the long-extinct reptiles that once roamed our oceans

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The Instagram Guide to Glasgow

The Scottish city has plenty of sights, eats, and experiences to offer.

Marie Claire

Giant Pteranodon Skeleton Sells At Auction For $3.9 Million

The Pteranodon ruled the skies during the late Cretaceous period of North America - between 66 and 145 million years ago.

Zenger

UK experts fear losing access to ice age mammoths Cotswolds site to UAE

Archeologists and palaeontologists say legislation needed to protect major finds championed by David Attenborough

The Guardian - UK

The heaviest animal ever may be this ancient whale found in the Peruvian desert

A new species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found

The Independent UK

Oldest known swimming jellyfish revealed

The 505 million-year-old fossil hints at what sea life was like in the Cambrian era

Salon

This Jellyfish Swam The Earth’s Water Bodies Half A Billion Years Ago

Free-swimming predatory jellyfish discovered from fossil records extracted from the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.

Zenger

Oldest species of swimming jellyfish discovered in 505m-year-old fossils

New species named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis was found in Canada and is exceptionally well preserved

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Field Museum redefines the face of science with new exhibition

The second installment of the exhibition highlights the story of “punk rock paleontologist” Jingmai O’Connor, the museum’s dinosaur curator.

The Independent UK

Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food

The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines

Zenger

Insect Bites On Ancient Plants Reveal Early Origins Of Leaf Folding

Fossil evidence suggests foliar nyctinasty predates dinosaurs by millions of years.

Zenger

German Quarry Yields 145 Million-Year-Old ‘Elvis’ Pterosaur With Unique Bony Head Crest

Exquisitely preserved fossil of nearly complete flying reptile sheds light on Late Jurassic pterosaurs

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Inverse

Ancient Human Burials Featured in Netflix Doc Spark a Scientific Controversy

Did our long-lost hominin cousins venture deep underground to dig graves for their dead, or is there still a mystery lurking in Rising Star Cave?

Inverse

Two Newly-Discovered Saber-Toothed Cat Species Shed Light on the Ancient Past

Paleontologists discovered the fossils of four extinct saber-toothed cats, including two new species, that roamed South Africa five million years ago.

The Hindu

Science This Week | New way to settle the universe expansion dispute, risk of dengue on the rise as the planet warms and more

Check out The Hindu’s science wrap featuring top 7 stories on new discoveries, findings, and studies in the scientific world from this week.

The Hindu

How did the dinosaurs become birds? The nose knows

Dinosaurs evolved to birds over millions of years, changing from cold-blooded from warm-blooded in the process. A new study has reported that warm-blooded animals have larger nasal cavities than cold-blooded ones, which could help cool their larger brains (relative to head size). Specifically, it reported finding the long-sought physiological function…

Zenger

How Ants Are Better Communicators Than Humans

A new study sheds fresh light on how ants provide food, shelter and defense for an entire colony.

Zenger

Scientists Unearth Fossil Of Dinosaur Being Attacked By Mammal

The fossil sheds new light on the behavior of early mammals in relation to their dinosaur contemporaries.

The Independent UK

Technological secrets from 300,000 BC: How one stick revealed early humans were more skilled than we thought

It’s the first time that scientists have proved that pre-Homo-sapiens species of humans had developed sophisticated woodworking skills

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