Africa

An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 24, 2020
Features of a fossil from what’s now Libya tie the animal closely to its extant American kin

By David Aragorn
Gigantic new locust swarms hit East Africa 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- May 14, 2020
New invasions are hitting just as growing season gets underway, threatening millions with hunger.

By David Aragorn
Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 21, 2020
Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa, according to new USC research just published in the journal Science.

By David Aragorn
First human ancestors to leave Africa died out in Java, scientists say 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 21, 2019
Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8m years

By David Aragorn
Oldest human skull found outside Africa 1
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 13, 2019
Scientists have identified the earliest known evidence of modern humans outside of the African continent.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Have Found Hidden Evidence of Ancient Ice Streams in The African Desert 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 8, 2019
Once, about 300 million years ago, when southern Africa was joined at South America’s hip, this now arid region was covered in a wide expanse of glaciers.

By David Aragorn
How we recreated a lost African city with laser technology 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 20, 2018
There are lost cities all over the world. Some, like the remains of Mayan cities hidden beneath a thick canopy of rainforest in Mesoamerica, are found with the help of laser lights.

By David Aragorn
Million-year-old Footprints in Britain May Alter “Out of Africa” Timeline 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 7, 2017
Dozens of prehistoric hominin footprints have been discovered in Norfolk and have been dated back to nearly one million years old. These are the oldest footprints ever discovered outside of Africa and could change the timeline of when the earliest human species migrated out of Africa and into Europe. The study comes from a collaboration of British research facilities and the results were published on PLOS ONE.

By David Aragorn
Visiting Dmanisi, Earliest Hominin Site Beyond Africa 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 7, 2017
In a quiet corner of the Republic of Georgia, hidden beneath medieval and Bronze Age ruins, the hominin fossil jackpot of Dmanisi is rewriting the story of human evolution.

By David Aragorn