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July 8, 2023

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Tooth Enamel Provides Clues to Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle of Neanderthals

A study has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in western ...

Wisconsin Cave Holds Tantalizing Clues to Ancient Climate Changes, Future Shifts

A newly published study of a stalagmite found in Cave of the Mounds reveals previously undetected history of the local climate going back thousands of years. Researchers describe evidence for an ice age punctuated by massive and abrupt warming ...

Mistaken Fossil Rewrites History of Indian Subcontinent for Second Time

Scientists discovered the first-ever Dickinsonia fossil in India two years ago, changing our understanding of how the continent came to be. Now, new research shows the 'fossil' was just a beehive all along, changing our understanding for a second time, and the original scientists now support the ...

Climate Whiplash Increased Wildfires on California's West Coast About 8,000 Years Ago

Researchers have been studying the effects of the sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred about 8,200 years ago, the so-called 8.2-kiloyear event, with the help of mineral deposits present in White Moon Cave in Northern California. New ...
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Sick Bats Also Employ 'Social Distancing' Which Prevents the Outbreak of Epidemics, Study Suggests

In a new study, researchers demonstrate that sick bats, just like ill humans, prefer to stay away from their communities, probably as a means for recovery, and possibly also as a measure for ...

Cryptic Sense of Orientation of Bats Localized: The Sixth Sense of Mammals Lies in the Eye

Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves on their migrations, which sometimes go far beyond their local ...

Cave Deposits Reveal Pleistocene Permafrost Thaw, Absent Predicted Levels of CO2 Release

Expanding the study of prehistoric permafrost thawing to North America, researchers found evidence in mineral deposits from caves in Canada that permafrost thawing took place as recently as 400,000 ...

Low Risk of Researchers Passing Coronavirus to North American Bats

A new study finds that the risk is low that scientists could pass coronavirus to North American bats during winter ...

Greenland Caves: Time Travel to a Warm Arctic

An international team of scientists presents an analysis of sediments from a cave in northeast Greenland, that cover a time period between about 588,000 to 549,000 years ago. This interval was warmer ...

Last Ice Age: Precipitation Caused Maximum Advance of Alpine Glaciers

Geologists unexpectedly found mineral deposits in former ice caves in the Austrian Alps dating back to the peak of the last ice age. These special calcite crystals demonstrate that intensive snowfall ...

Rarest Seal Breeding Site Discovered

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown breeding site used by the world's rarest seal ...

Metal Whispering: Finding a Better Way to Recover Precious Metals from Electronic Waste

的“金属低语,”工程师developed technology capable of recovering pure and precious metals from the alloys in our old phones and other electrical waste. All it ...

Ancient Seashell Resonates After 18,000 Years

Almost 80 years after its discovery, a large shell from the ornate Marsoulas Cave in the Pyrenees has been studied by a multidisciplinary team: it is believed to be the oldest wind instrument of its ...

Disease Threatens to Decimate Western Bats

A four-year study concludes that the fungal disease, white-nose syndrome, poses a severe threat to many western North American ...

Tiny Cave Snail With Muffin-Top Waistline Rolls out of the Dark in Laos

Recent cave exploration has turned up a tiny, top-heavy snail that glistens under the light of the microscope lens. Only 1.80 mm tall, this transparent snail bulges at the middle, giving a natural ...

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Expect More Mega-Droughts

Mega-droughts - droughts that last two decades or longer - are tipped to increase thanks to climate change, according to new ...

Boo! How Do Mexican Cavefish Escape Predators?

When startled, do all fish respond the same way? A few fish, like Mexican cavefish, have evolved in unique environments without any predators. To see how this lack of predation impacts escape ...

Skeletal Study Suggests at Least 11 Fish Species Are Capable of Walking

An international team of scientists has identified at least 11 species of fish suspected to have land-walking ...

Past Rapid Warming Levels in the Arctic Associated With Widespread Climate Changes

Using Greenland ice cores, new research is the first to confirm the longstanding assumption that climate changes between the tropics and the Arctic were synchronized during the last glacial ...

Lava Tubes on Mars and the Moon Are So Wide They Can Host Planetary Bases

Subsurface cavities created by lava on Mars and the Moon could provide a shield against cosmic radiation, new research ...

Scientists Reveal an Explosive Secret Hidden Beneath Seemingly Trustworthy Volcanoes

Volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago has found that volcanoes which reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse magmas in their ...

What Happens in Vegas, May Come from the Arctic?

Ancient climate records from Leviathan Cave, located in the southern Great Basin, show that Nevada was even hotter and drier in the past than it is today, and that one 4,000-year period in particular ...

Earliest Humans Stayed at the Americas 'Oldest Hotel' in Mexican Cave

A cave in a remote part of Mexico was visited by humans around 30,000 years ago - 15,000 years earlier than people were previously thought to have reached the Americas. Excavations of Chiquihuite ...

Neanderthals of Western Mediterranean Did Not Become Extinct Because of Changes in Climate, Study Shows

According to paleoclimatic reconstructions analyzing stalagmites sampled in some caves in the Murge plateau (Apulia, Italy), Neanderthals might have become extinct because Homo sapiens employed more ...

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