800,000 Years Ago, a Meteor Slammed Into Earth. Scientists Just Found the Crater.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 15, 2020
Scientists knew the impact happened; they just didn’t know where.

Scientists knew the impact happened; they just didn’t know where.

A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billions of years, scientists said on Monday.

New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

A scrap of skull collected in 1978 and stored for decades in an Athens museum may rewrite the timeline of when Homo sapiens left our ancestral African homeland.

The table was uncovered within a temple dating back to the 12th Century BCE, a time when the Israelites and Philistines were warring.

Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8m years

It’s been 50 years since such a discovery was made, the researchers said.

Source: Science Alert Even before the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs and other life forms were dealing with toxic mercury levels, a new study suggests. The fresh evidence serves up even more contention in a “long-running and bitter” debate over how the dinosaurs died all those years ago. While some scientists

Carbonodraco lundi, which lived more than 306 million years ago, unseats fossil found by P.E.I. boy

Chewed birch pitch could be an overlooked source of ancient genetic material, researchers say



