ancient archeology

These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 5, 2020
Animals that lived over 500 million years ago may have stolen food from their hosts’ mouths

By David Aragorn
Fossilized stomach contents show armored dinosaur’s leafy last meal 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 4, 2020
In a forest rebounding after a wildfire 110 million years ago, an armored dinosaur devoured a meal of tender ferns in western Canada before suffering a sudden death – perhaps drowning in a river or a flash flood – and being washed out to sea.

By David Aragorn
Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 4, 2020
Site at Aguada Fénix found using lidar aerial laser technology

By David Aragorn
The Dead Sea Scrolls contain genetic clues to their origins 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 4, 2020
Animal DNA gleaned from parchments is helping researchers piece together the scrolls’ history

By David Aragorn
Did Neanderthals draw? This B.C. researcher is going to test DNA in old cave art to find out 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 1, 2020
National Geographic funds UVic paleoanthropologist to solve 40,000-year-old mystery

By David Aragorn
Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck Earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 29, 2020
New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ angle.

By David Aragorn
In Mexico City, experts find bones of dozens of mammoths 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 23, 2020
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built ‘traps’ where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year.

By David Aragorn
Tagish Lake meteorite that fell in northern B.C. contains clues as to how life may have arisen on Earth 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- May 21, 2020
Material collected from Tagish Lake meteorite that fell across Yukon, B.C. in 2000

By David Aragorn
When Did Homo Sapiens First Appear?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 19, 2020
The oldest Homo sapiens fossils that anthropologists have found thus far date to around 315,000 years ago. That means we can say that modern humans are at least that old. But our lineage likely extends further back in time — we just don’t have the fossils to prove it.

By David Aragorn
Argentine paleontologists found a ten-meter-long megaraptor in Patagonia 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 14, 2020
Researchers from the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (Buenos Aires) found a large carnivorous dinosaur of about 70 million years old in the southwest of the province of Santa Cruz. From the specimen were recovered vertebrae, ribs and parts of the chest and shoulder girdle.

By David Aragorn