What’s happening?
- Did hyenas make ‘Neanderthal bone flutes’?
- Strange rituals or cannibalism? Neanderthals manipulated bodies of adults and children shortly after death. Can’t have been hyenas – too busy making flutes.
- Britain’s oldest cremated human bone discovered.
- Primate females may have pioneered hunting with weapons. Still innovating.
- Saturn’s Titan: “A fascinating and evolving world”.
- A unique whale song is recorded in Antarctica, perhaps from a new species.
- Parkes Observatory: Extraterrestrial messages or microwave noodles?
- Mars might have liquid water.
- What kind of object can survive a close encounter with a monster black hole?
- Geologist revives the controversy over ‘Jesus family tomb’.
- 10 of the best ancient ruins … that you’ve probably never heard of.
- New radio carbon dating technique will revolutionise field archaeology.
- End-Triassic CO2 surge and mass extinction – an analog for climate change today?
- This is the most complete ‘Terror Bird’ ever discovered.
Quote of the Day:
While many things are too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Thomas Hardy
