Ancient Germanic Lord Buried with Six Women Discovered in Germany In Saxony-Anhalt, close to Brücken-Hackpfüffel Archaeologists have discovered the complex grave of a Germanic lord or prince who lived 1,500 years ago during the Great Migration. Experts claim that for 40…
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13-Year-Old Discovers 1,000-Year-Old Viking Silver Hoard Linked to King Harald Bluetooth When someone asked what the coolest thing you accomplished as a newly minted teenager, most people would probably have to confess something like “successfully pulled off a kickflip” or…
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700,000-Year-Old Petralona Skull Found in Greece Sparks Debate on Human Origins The “Petralona Man,” or “Petralona Archanthropus” is a for 700,000 years old human skull found in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of this skull, which…
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Hundreds of 12-Million-Year-Old Prehistoric Animals Discovered in Nebraska’s Volcanic Ashfall Fossil Beds The watering holes attracted prehistoric animals among Nebraska’s tall grasslands. From horses to camels and rhinoceroses, with wild dogs looming nearby, animals roamed the savanna-like region. Then, one…
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First Modern Humans in Europe: Arrival 10,000 Years Earlier Than Believed Some 30 years of archaeological and other types of scientific research around the ancient artifacts and human remains in the Grotte Mandarin, located in the Rhone River Valley in…
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Largest Dinosaur Fossil in Europe Discovered in Portugal – 150 Million-Year-Old Sauropod Unearthed Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilized skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe. The remains are thought to be those of…
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Homo Bodoensis: Newly Named Human Species and Potential Ancestor of Modern Humans Live Science reports that paleoanthropologist Mirjana Roksandic of the University of Winnipeg and her colleagues suggest renaming some human ancestors after examining fossils dating from 774,000 to 129,000…
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300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery in Utah: Could It Be a New Species? A 300-million-year-old fossil discovered deep in Canyonlands National Park in Utah could belong to an entirely new species, reports Amy Joi O’Donoghue for the Deseret News. The fossilized critter is an…
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