New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for…
New research by German scientists has revealed that Europeans already used steel tools nearly 3,000 years ago. Image shows geochemical analyses used by the researchers to show that stone stelae on the Iberian peninsula that date back to the Final Bronze Age feature complex engravings that could only have been…
Evolutionary biologists have apparently solved the mystery of the missing link between modern-day sharks and rays. Image shows the fossil of the Late Jurassic shark Protospinax annectans, undated photo. Researchers at the University of Vienna, Austria, found out that the species was very developed. (Sebastian Stumpf/Newsflash) A new study of…
Some male wasps are using spikes close to their genitals to protect themselves from being attacked or eaten up, scientists in Japan have found. https://rumble.com/v29rtxo-wasps-uses-genital-spikes-to-fend-off-hungry-frogs-says-study.html More than one in three of the insects belonging to the Anterhynchium gibbifrons species survived an experiment involving frogs, according to researchers at Kobe University.…
Creators of the Bible could have pinched some of its best lines from ancient curse tablets, a new study has revealed. Image shows a curse tablet cursing Priscilla from Gross-Gerau, in Hesse, Germany. The lead tablet, here the front side, consists of three fragments and is inscribed on both sides…
