It has been 176 years since the 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition, and its catastrophic outcome — the loss of the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and all 129 officers and crew — continues to fascinate.
While on a routine patrol, Greg Francek came across bone fragments from prehistoric animals that existed millions of years before humans
TWO seemingly disparate scientific disciplines have been drawn into each other’s orbits, set on a collision course. On one side is archaeology with its grimy earthiness, heavy with history and tradition; on the other is genetics, with its clinical brightness, brave and brash in its newness. Fusion can be difficult, but it can also create astonishing energy when it happens.
A team of palaeontologists in Mexico have identified a new species of dinosaur after finding its 72 million-year-old fossilized remains almost a decade ago, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said on Thursday.
Advanced technique used to recover genetic material may help solve the mystery of early humans
Sand samples examined by National Trust experts indicate hillside chalk figure was created in the 10th century
Good luck with that.
Sometime in the early Jurassic, an ancient squid-like creature speared a yummy lobster-like crustacean with its many hooked tentacles. Just as it began to dig into its meal, the eater became the eaten.
On this day in weather history, an extremely rare ‘dark’ lunar eclipse occurred on the 5th of May, in the year 1110, but how?
Our hominin ancestor had bigger brains and probably went extinct with climate change. Who are we to judge?
