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Latin Papyrus Texts Reanimate Fossils of the Roman World
The PLATINUM project claims to be a “Partnership for Learning and Teaching in University Mathematics.” The study began with the goal of analyzing existing Latin papyrus texts dating to the 1st to 8th centuries AD to learn more about Roman Orientalism as an aspect of “multiculturalism in Antiquity and Late Antiquity.” But this study of […]
Mysterious Cases of Living Fossils, Suspended Animation, and Hibernation
We all know that fossils, by their very nature, are dead. Of course, nothing can survive the conditions of pressure, depth and time required to petrify wood, see saplings mature into massive trees, transmogrify vegetation into coal or metamorphose mud into solid rock. Still, living creatures seemingly from remotest antiquity keep turning up encased in […]
Sterkfontein Hominin Fossils Redated To A Million Years Older
Researchers at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, famous for the discovery of ‘Little Foot’ and a ream of other ancient hominin remains, have yielded dating results that could overturn the evolutionary timeline for groups of human ancestors. Read more Section: News Evolution & Human Origins Read Later Source Views: 0
Oldest Fossils of Egyptian Cobra Ancestors Found in Fayoum Depression
A team from Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP) has found the oldest fossils of Egyptian cobra ancestors dating back 37 million years to the Eocene Epoch. The team, which included international researchers, also discovered a fossil of the largest legless lizard of the same vintage, reports Al-Monitor. The research was published in the Journal […]
Oldest Fossils of Egyptian Cobra Ancestors Found in Fayoum Depression
A team from Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP) has found the oldest fossils of Egyptian cobra ancestors dating back 37 million years to the Eocene Epoch. The team, which included international researchers, also discovered a fossil of the largest legless lizard of the same vintage, reports Al-Monitor. The research was published in the Journal […]
New Denisovan Fossils From Siberian Cave Are The Oldest Ever Found
Researchers from the Max Planck Society and the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen have found new fossilized human-like remains mixed in an assortment of bone samples taken from Siberia’s famed Denisova Cave. This includes three fragments that belonged to actual Denisovans, the much-speculated-about species that gave the cave its name. These bones will be added […]
600 Million Year Old Fossils of Tiny Humanoids Found In Antarctica
Interestingly enough, this discovery was made while yours truly was in Antarctica on assignment for The National Reporter to debunk a ridiculous tabloid story about a UFO base in the area. While investigating this silly story with several colleagues, we happened upon a group of paleontologists who were searching for evidence that dinosaurs had once […]
65ft tall and 125 million years old: Scientists unearth fossils of enormous dinosaur
Researchers have uncovered the fossils of one of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk on the Earth – remains which they believe could belong to a previously undiscovered species. Paleontologists digging near the city of Morella in eastern Spain discovered the remains of a gigantic dinosaur which would have measured a staggering 20-meters (65 […]
‘Oldest Ever’ 300,000 Year Human Fossils Unearthed In Morocco
The fossils, discovered at the Jebel Irhoud archeological site in Morocco, belonged to three adults, one adolescent, and one child who was around eight years old, Reuters reported, citing two articles published in the journal Nature. According to researchers, the bones are around 300,000 years old, making it an incredibly significant finding as the previously […]
Turkish govt shuts down Zaman newspaper following seizure
Zaman was taken over by Ankara in early March. Following the seizure, the government immediately appointed new trustees for Feza Media Group, which owned the paper. Police also raided the newspaper’s offices to enforce a Turkish court order stating that the media outlet must be brought under government authority. The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Abdulhamit Bilici, was fired […]
The CIA’s “Phoenix Program” in Vietnam and the “War on Terror”
The Phoenix Program in Vietnam in many ways provides a blue print for our own times. Assassinations and torture are the essence of the war on terror. As are death squads and false flag terror attacks. As are mass surveillance of the populace. Thanks to the work of Douglas Valentine in his classic book “The […]
The Fake Wounded of the Jakarta Terror Attack Hoax
The Fake Wounded of the Jakarta Terror Attack Hoax It is said that on January 14, 2016, a group of so-called Islamic radicals attacked Jakarta in a wild terror attack, killing people randomly. This is a lie. There were no Muslim killers of any kind operating that day. The only murderers of the day were […]
Titanic telegram reveals owners knew of accident
A newly discovered distress telegram sent from the Titanic has shed new light on the luxury liner’s last hours, revealing the ship owners knew of the disaster unfolding – something they vehemently refuted at that time. The world’s biggest passenger liner left Southampton, England, for New York on its maiden voyage on April 10, […]
El Nino covers arid Atacama desert in flowers
Flowers bloom at the Huasco region on the Atacama desert, some 600 km north of Santiago, on November 27, 2015 Here’s a softer side to the disruptive weather phenomenon known as El Nino: an enormous blanket of colorful flowers has carpeted Chile’s Atacama desert, the most arid in the world. The cyclical warming of the […]
Dust particles from afar
The Ulysses mission was a joint project of NASA and ESA. One of the missions’s goals was to measure interstellar dust particles that make their way into the solar system. Credit: ESA When in 1990 the solar probe Ulysses embarked on its 19-year-long exploration tour, the participating researchers turned their attention not only to our […]
Oldest known fossils prove life began more than 3.4bn years ago
Steve ConnerLondon Independent Aug 22, 2011 The fossilised remains of the oldest known lifeforms on Earth have been discovered in samples of rock collected near a remote watering hole in the middle of the Australian Outback. Scientists said that the microscopic fossils belonged to primitive bacteria that lived more than 3.4 billion years ago, when […]