By: Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON.- In modern times, men explored the New World. But 2 million years earlier, the men among our pre-human forerunners stayed put and it was the women who traveled to start new families, a study of fossil …
‘Lucy’ Species Used Stone Tools, Fossil Study by California Academy Says
NEW YORK (AP).- Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say. The bones appear to have been cut and smashed some…
‘Lucy’ Species Used Stone Tools, Fossil Study by California Academy of Sciences Says
NEW YORK (AP).- Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say. The bones appear to have been cut and smashed some…
Field Museum Scholars Find that Oxygen Fuels the Fires of Time
CHICAGO, IL.- Variations in the Earth’s atmospheric oxygen levels are thought to be closely linked to the evolution of life, with strong feedbacks between uni- and multicellular life and oxygen. Over the past 400 million years the level of oxygen has v…
Researchers Find that Early Humans Ventured Farther North than Thought
LONDON (AP).- Ancient man ventured into northern Europe far earlier than previously thought, settling on England’s east coast more than 800,000 years ago, scientists said. It had been assumed that humans — thought to have emerged from Africa aroun…
Monster of the Deep: Scientists Find Fossil Skull of 43 ft Long Whale
LIMA, PERU – A new species of ‘killer’
sperm whale with fearsome teeth
that roamed the seas more than 12 million years ago has been discovered
by
scientists. The fossilized skull and jaw of the
gigantic
creature, which was 43 foot long…