Aux origines

Artefacts discovered in Cyprus suggest humans inhabited Mediterranean 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.

(Phys.org) —Artifacts found at an archaeological site in Cyprus support a new theory that humans occupied the tiny Mediterranean island about 1,000 years earlier than previously believed – a discovery that fills an important gap in Cypriot history.

Plus de 80 crânes majoritairement de jeunes femmes ont été retrouvés récemment dans les ruines d’une ville...

During the protective archaeological works, carried out in parallel with the construction of Corridor 10, archaeologist Zoran Mitic found the remains of beautifully decorated chariot, assumed to be aged between 3,000 and 4,000 years and to have belonged to a Thracian from the elite of the time. Archaeologist Zoran Mitic with the remains of Thracian chariot [Credit: Kurir/Tanjug]According to Mitic, this an unique and extremely...

Popular television shows such as “Doctor Who” have brought the idea of time travel into the vernacular of popular culture. But problem of time travel is even more complicated than one might think. LSU’s Mark Wilde has shown that it would theoretically be possible for time travelers to copy quantum data from the past. Time Warp [Credit: John H. Lienhard]It all started when David Deutsch, a pioneer of quantum computing and a physicist...

Whiskytree, the 3D graphics company that has participated in many hollywood movies like “The Hunger Games,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” presented the reconstruction of Acropolis in a 2 and a half-minute 3D video. Scene from the Whiskytree group's 3D reconstruction of Ancient Athens [Credit: Greek Reporter]The Whiskytree group in collaboration with VFX company (the brains behind the impressive visual effects of the movie...

Using novel techniques to extract and study ancient DNA researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have determined an almost complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a 400,000-year-old representative of the genus Homo from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain, and found that it is related to the mitochondrial genome of Denisovans, extinct relatives of Neandertals in...

In the remote province of Niassa, Mozambique, a new species and genus of fossil vertebrate was found. The species is a distant relative of living mammals and is approximately 256 million years old. This new species belongs to a group of animals called synapsids. Synapsida includes a number of extinct lineages that dominated the communities on land in the Late Permian (260-252 million years ago), as well as living mammals and their...

Los arqueólogos Dídac Román e Inés Domingo han iniciado en el abrigo del Barranc de les Carabasses de Vilafranca un ...

The last common ancestor of Man and Ape was not a knuckle-walking, tree-swinging hominid resembling today's chimpanzee, said a study Tuesday challenging some long-held theories of human evolution. 13 fossil fragments--broken femurs, bits of lower jaw, and several teeth--of Orrorin tugenensis [Credit: Martin Pickford, Brigitte Senut]Rather than a prototype chimp as commonly believed, our common forefather was an ape unlike any that...

Tullie House museum  in Carlisle, Northwest England, has been donated two very rare Neolithic wooden tridents by Cumbria County Council and is putting them on display for the public to give their theories onwhat they were used for. Tridents on display. Image Tullie House Museum [Credit: © Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust]The two tridents were discovered during the archaeological excavations prior to the construction of...

Des chercheurs britanniques ont mis en évidence, sur un site archéologique gallois, les propriétés sonores de...

Archaeologists have found some of the most curious canine burials ever unearthed in Egypt — two well preserved dogs buried in pots some 3,000 years ago. A 2009 excavation revealed several jars containing animal burials. Of the many jars that were recovered, only 13 have been properly investigated. Of these, two contained "Houdini" and "Chewie," two well preserved animals -- most likely dogs -- with their fur largely intact [Credit:...

De l'ADN mitochondrial extrait d'un hominidé de La Sima de los Huesos montre des correspondances avec l'homme de Denisova... alors que l'on pensait qu'il était lié à l'homme de Néandertal.

An analysis of the femur of one of the oldest human ancestors reveals the six-million-year-old "Millenium Man" was bipedal but lived in the trees. The research, led by Stony Brook University researchers and their team of international paleoanthropologists, could provide additional insight to the origins of human bipedalism and is published in Nature Communications. Composite: Orrorin (at left) and other fossil hominins [Credit:John...

Wasps, bees, ants and relatives comprise the megadiverse insect order Hymenoptera, the third most speciose animal group on Earth, far surpassing the number of known vertebrate species. All the four most diverse orders of animals (beetles, butterflies, wasps, and true flies) belong to the group of insects with complete metamorphosis, i.e. having a dormant pupa, jointly known as Holometabola. Other holometabolans are lacewings,...

Wolves can learn from observing humans and pack members where food is hidden and recognize when humans only pretend to hide food, reports a study for the first time in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology. These findings imply that when our ancestors started to domesticate dogs, they could have built on a pre-existing ability of wolves to learn from others, not necessarily pack members.

Alt Maestrat. Los arqueólogos Dídac Román e Inés Domingo han iniciado en el abrigo del Barranc de les Carabasses un estudio sobre las pinturas rupestres en los pueblos de Els Ports.

Analysis of oldest sequence from a human ancestor reveals close link with Denisovans

In the remote province of Niassa, Mozambique, a new species and genus of fossil vertebrate was found. The species is a distant relative of living mammals and is approximately 256 million years old. This new species belongs to a group of animals called synapsids. Synapsida includes a number of extinct lineages that dominated the communities on land in the Late Permian (260-252 million years ago), as well as living mammals and their direct ancestors.