News

This Prehistoric Trick Shows How Ice Age People Harvested Teeth for Jewelry
When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...
Scientists and Peter Jackson attempt to bring back an extinct bird — kind of
The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
A Bone Bed From the Dawn of the Dinosaurs Has Revealed the Oldest Known Pterosaur Found in North America
Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
Science Daily11d
Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”
Cambridge scientists have spotted gut bacteria that greedily soak up PFAS “forever chemicals,” then ferry them safely out of ...
THE WEEK1mon
The history of animal metaphors in propaganda
Why are animal metaphors so common? The depiction of enemies as subhuman dates as far back as ancient China, Egypt and Mesopotamia, author David Livingstone Smith told NPR .