Advanced Alien Civilizations From 2,000 Star Systems Could Have “Discovered” Life On Earth Astronomers have compiled a list of 2,034 star systems in which presumed alien civilizations could have or can see the passage of the Earth across the disk of the Sun. It turned out that 46 such stars are located within a hundred light-years and can not only […]
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A new clue to human evolution’s biggest mystery emerges in the Philippines Denisovans are an elusive bunch, known mainly from ancient DNA samples and traces of that DNA that the ancient hominids shared when they interbred with Homo sapiens. They left their biggest genetic imprint on people who now live in Southeast Asian islands, nearby Papua New Guinea and Australia. Genetic […]
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Methane Plumes on Saturn’s Moon Likely a Good Sign of Alien Life An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy by scientists at the University of Arizona and Paris Sciences & Lettres University. Giant water plumes erupting from Enceladus have […]
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Archaeologists Find 3,300-Year-Old Claw Of A Bird That Went Extinct 700 Years Ago Scientists have estimated the Earth to be more or less 4.54 billion years old, predating even human existence. Indeed, there’s a lot more to learn about our home planet than what we were taught in schools. So, when a photo of an unusually massive bird claw surfaced […]
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Bronze artefact reveals lions roared in for the kill in Roman Leicester Archaeologists have discovered a bronze key handle that shows lions were used in executions in Roman Britain. The handle, which depicts a “Barbarian” wrestling with a lion, was discovered beneath a Roman townhouse in Leicester’s Great Central Street. It also shows figures of four boys cowering in terror. […]
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Well Preserved Cave Lion Cub Found to be a 28,000-Year-Old Female A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost, is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every one of her whiskers. Researchers in Sweden claim the cub, nicknamed Sparta, is probably the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever uncovered and describe Sparta in […]
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Scientists discover hundreds of thousands of animal, human bones in Saudi Arabia cave Although hyenas look and hunt like canines, they’re members of the mongoose family and therefore more closely related to a cat. However, just like dogs, hyenas have an affinity for hiding bones — it’s just that they can tend to go a bit overboard. Case in point, […]
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Iron Age Chariot Burial Site Found – Complete with Horse and Rider An Iron Age chariot has been discovered buried in a Yorkshire village for the second time in two years. The find was found at a building site in Pocklington, England, where more than 200 homes are being built. Archaeologists are trying to properly dig the discovery as of […]
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Evidence of 2,800-year-old biblical earthquake found in Jerusalem Books of Amos and Zechariah in the Old Testament describe an earthquake that rocked the city of Jerusalem about 2,800 years ago and archaeologists have now found the first evidence of the biblical event. The Israel Antiquities Authority’s (IAA) excavations in the City of David National Park uncovered a layer of destruction during excavations, […]
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9,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. Gazing into the water In modern archaeology, the use […]
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