First-Known Animal Butt-Drag Discovered in 126,000-Year-Old Fossil
Scooting its butt across the carpet is not a behavior unique to your dog, nor is it a new behavior at all. Creatures have been scraping their bottoms across the ...
Tag: Archeology
Scientists Just Discovered What the Earliest Animals Actually Looked Like
For centuries, scientists have argued over who came first, the sponge or the comb jelly. It’s an existential version of the chicken-and-egg problem—except the answer might explain how animal life ...
A ‘Floating Castle’ Warship Shipwreck Is Teaching Archaeologists About 15th-Century Weapons
The Gribshunden was a Danish-Norwegian warship that basically functioned as a floating medieval death castle. Built between 1483 and 1484, this royal flagship gobbled up 8 percent of Denmark’s national ...
‘Shockingly’ Well-Preserved Skull Changes Everything We Know About Dome-Headed Dinosaurs
In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, scientists discovered a pristine fossil of a previously unknown, dome-headed dinosaur. It’s not only the oldest of its kind ever found but also the most complete. ...
Stunning Tattoos Found on 2,500-Year-Old ‘Ice Mummy’
Long before tattoo shops offered walk-in flash tats and Pinterest boards flooded with minimalist linework, people were getting inked for reasons we’re still figuring out. A Siberian mummy just gave ...
An Ancient Shark Fossil Was Found Inside the World’s Longest Cave System
Tucked deep inside the winding, limestone labyrinth of Mammoth Cave, scientists just uncovered something unexpected: a shark. Not a living one, thankfully—unless you’re into waking nightmares—but the fossilized remains of ...
Ancient Hawaiian Petroglyphs Reemerge After Being Hidden by Waves
Usually buried under layers of sand, the western shores of the Hawaiian island of Oahu revealed a series of stone-carved petroglyphs that haven’t been visible for decades. But thanks to ...
