“In a way, it’s like finding a fish in amber. Talk about wrong place, wrong time.”
The peer-reviewed journal Science Advances published these scientists’ study on October 20.
In a study of exposed outcrops of Lake Otero in New Mexico, the United States, archaeologists have discovered numerous human footprints dating to about 23,000 to 21,000 years ago. The discovery confirms the presence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, adding evidence to the antiquity of human colonization of the Americas.
Modern roads and developments share more similarities with ancient urban centers than we often realize – which is certainly the case with the sprawling Teotihuacan settlement, once located around 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Mexico City.
The ankylosaur species of dinosaur is best known for its armored spikes but, before now, remnants have only been discovered in North America. Fossil hunters found a unique type of ankylosaur that derives from the Middle Atlas mountains in Morocco – giving Africa its first ankylosaur.
Voyagers migrated to islands sprinkled across a large area of the Pacific within about 500 years
Preserved footprints of newborn pachyderms are roughly the size of drink coaster
It was getting late and the team of paleontologists excavating a previously unexplored outcrop of the Burgess Shale was ready to call it a day. A camera crew filming the dig in Kootenay National Park had already packed it in.
The skeleton of an ancient woman, discovered in an Indonesian cave in 2015, appears to have ancestry unlike any other human found to date. Her remains have now provided archaeologists with a rare glimpse of the earliest settlers to leave mainland Asia and begin the journey to New Guinea and Australia.
A mysterious stone tomb in western England — known as Arthur’s Stone because of its links to the mythical King Arthur — originated almost 6,000 years ago as part of an elaborate “ceremonial landscape” across the whole area, according to archaeologists.
The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the story of a previously unknown group of humans.
