Scientists have found evidence of a sunken forest off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. (thx, malatron)
Scientists have found evidence of a sunken forest off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. (thx, malatron)
The pyramid is 100 metres high and there is evidence that it contains rooms and a monumental causeway… The plateau is built of stone blocks, which indicates the presence at the time of a highly developed civilisation.
4000 year-old pot of noodles found in China, settling (for now) the “hotly contested” question of who invented the noodle.
Further discovery of Homo floresiensis bones have strengthened researchers’ argument that the so-called Hobbit is a new and distinct human species. More on Flores man at Nature, which is doing a weekly podcast now.
Local man uses Google Maps to find the undiscovered remains of a Roman villa near his town in Italy.
Evolution shocker! The discovery of a dinosaur footprint on the wall of a contemporary Brooklyn school proves that the earth is less than 6000 years old (and, perhaps, that dinosaurs could walk vertically). No word on the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s involvement.
Robotics research suggests that Lucy walked upright like humans. Lucy, discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, is a 3.2 million year old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton.
40,000 year-old human footprints found in Mexico. Humans are thought to have come to the Americas only 11,000 years ago.
Jared Diamond calls agriculture “the worst mistake in the history of the human race”. “With the advent of agriculture [the] elite became better off, but most people became worse off”.
2000 year old seed grows a previously extinct Judean date tree. It’s like a plant version of Jurassic Park.