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Joseph Shavit
- Sep 17
Researchers discover extinct prehistoric reptile that lived among dinosaurs
Discovery sheds light on the Tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 6
DNA from human remains shines new light on Jewish history
An analysis of DNA from 12th-century human remains has provided new insights into Ashkenazi Jewish population history.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 1
College student discovered Africa’s oldest known dinosaur
The skeleton — incredibly, mostly intact — was first found by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences.
Joshua Shavit
- Aug 28
Researchers may have found the lost city of Natounia
The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the major regional centres of the Parthian Empire.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 31
Jurassic marine world unearthed in a farmer's field
An exceptional prehistoric site discovery containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 31
Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian, according to DNA evidence
Cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 15
5,000-year-old tomb discovered and linked to King Arthur
Archaeologists have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur hoping to answer questions surrounding the site.
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 13
500-million-year-old fossil prompts a rethink of the evolution of insects
It’s what’s inside Stanleycaris’ head that has researchers most excited. Remains of the brain are still preserved after 506 million years.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 16
Europe’s largest land predator unearthed on the Isle of Wight
Researchers have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 12
Prehistoric “Swiss Army knife” shows how early humans communicated
In a world first, researchers have revealed that early humans across southern Africa made a particular type of stone tool in the same shape.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 2
New dinosaur species used fearsome claws to graze along the coast
Scientists have described the youngest therizinosaur fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments.
Joseph Shavit
- May 22
What the new Jurassic Park movie gets wrong about dinosaurs
One of the most exciting moments of the new Jurassic Park sequel, Jurassic World Dominion, is when Quetzalcoatlus swoops down from the sky.
Joseph Shavit
- May 11
Researchers discover of a piece of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs
One fateful day some 66 million years ago, a 7.5-mile-wide space rock slammed into the Earth ending the age of the dinosaur.
Joseph Shavit
- Apr 27
Study challenges theories of earlier human arrival in Americas
The paper challenges new theories that the earliest human inhabitants of North America arrived before the migration of people from Asia.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 22
Early man's food choices discovered through prehistoric pot residue
To reconstruct the cookery of people who lived thousands of years ago, bones and plant remains can tell us which ingredients were available
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 3
Stonehenge served as an ancient solar calendar - study finds
It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 25
The fall of dinosaurs actually took place in the spring, research concludes
The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime according to an
international team of researchers.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 9
New large titanosaurian dinosaur discovered in the Pyrenees
The skeleton of Abditosaurus kuehnei is the most complete titanosaur fossil discovered so far in Europe.
Joseph Shavit
- Dec 28, 2021
Earth's first giant, Ichthyosaur, reveals how whales became the largest animals ever
The skull of a newly discovered species of giant ichthyosaur is shedding new light on the marine reptiles’ rapid growth into behemoths.