Need To Know5 days agoBefore the Era of Dinosaurs, There Was a Ten-Legged Octopusancient-origins.net - Cecilia BogaardLocked away in a drawer in a museum in Canada, scientists rediscovered a fossil that rewrote the paleontological history of the octopus, revealing …
Need To Know4 days agoLong Overlooked, This 11th-Century Astronomical Device Documents Scientific Exchange Among Muslims, Jews and ChristiansSmithsonian Magazine - Sonja AndersonWhen historian Federica Gigante glimpsed a rare artifact in the background of a photo on an Italian museum’s website, she immediately reached out to …
Need To Know3 days agoResearchers present the world's oldest long-necked marine reptilephys.org - Meike RechAn international team of scientists led by Dr. Stephan Spiekman, Dr. Eudald Mujal and Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch, paleontologists at the State Museum of …
Need To Know4 days agoArchaeologists Unearth 2,000-Year-Old Relic Covered in Mysterious Symbols from Lost Ancient Languagethedebrief.org - Christopher PlainArcheologists in Northern Spain report the discovery of a 2,000-year-old relic in the shape of a hand that is covered in mysterious symbols from an …
Need To Know1:184 days agoThe Earliest Trees to Ever Live On Land Had a Mysterious and Self-Destructive Way of Growingtheamazelab - Amaze LabThis might look like strangely textured stone, but it’s actually the fossilized remains of a prehistoric forest. They say this tree stump dates back some 390 million years, when life on our planet was first stretching out onto land. Now experts say it had a strange way of growing by literally ripping itself apart.
Need To Know5 days agoHittite Cuneiform Tablet Translated - Archaeology Magazinearchaeology.org - Jessica Esther SaraceniTOKYO, JAPAN—According to a Live Science report, a well-preserved cuneiform tablet unearthed last year by Kimiyoshi Matsumura of the Japanese …