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DNA solves the mystery of a body found in the Arctic in 1859
4+ day, 12+ min ago (816+ words) Researchers have identified four additional sailors from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition, including one man whose identity had remained the subject of debate for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo…...
Forget Beer: Ice Age Hunters Were Getting High 12,000 Years Earlier — With Betel Nuts
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (599+ words) Teeth from two skeletons on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi push back the origin of habitual drug use to 25,000 years ago — long before agriculture, and well before the world's oldest known beer. These hunter-gatherers weren't chewing anything. They were sucking…...
Ukrainian polar explorers showed off huge snow donuts
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (394+ words) In reality, these aren’t just lumps of snow. Such formations consist of several layers that twist around one another. The snow inside often remains loose, so over time, some of it may simply blow out. Because of this, a hole…...
Ice Age origins of one of humanity's oldest drug habits discovered
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (12+ words) Phys.org...
Ancient DNA shows the extinct American cheetah Miracinonyx, long cast as a pronghorn chaser, left Yukon fossils about 31,000 to 34,000 years old from cats that ranged far into the Arctic and ate fish
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (121+ words) A legendary predator's Arctic fossils reveal it was nothing like its nickname suggests—a fish-eating cat, not a pronghorn sprinter. By Space War Editorial Team · Editorial process Published September 8, 2026 Two of those Yukon specimens had been assigned to other cats,…...
Bones found in Yukon ID'd as ice-age cheetah
1+ week, 2+ day ago (112+ words) CBC Bones found in Yukon ID'd as ice-age cheetah At first, bones found in the Bluefish Caves and at a mine site in northern Yukon were assumed to belong to an ice-age puma or cougar. But DNA analysis from the…...
Wolf bones from 2 animals in a cave on a Baltic island under a square mile carry the same seal and fish chemistry as the people who camped there, on ground with no land mammals
1+ week, 5+ day ago (800+ words) There is a rock in the Baltic with sheer sides and a cave near the shore. Nothing lives on it that walks. No deer, no hare, no fox, no land mammal at all. Seabirds nest on the cliffs and seals…...
Have you seen this squirrel? These Alberta researchers want to know | CBC News
2+ week, 2+ day ago (598+ words) Scientists are asking Albertans to keep their eyes peeled for a rare rodent. The elusive Franklin's ground squirrel is the subject of a research project led by wildlife biologist Jess Haines, and is a collaboration between the MacEwan University professor's…...
Frozen poop reveals Ice Age squirrels’ ecosystem
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1705+ words) DNA stored in ancient scat shows the Yukon rodents ate their way through the food chain Researcher Danielle Grant studies ancient genomes. Here, she loads fecal samples into a centrifuge — a spinning device that separates materials — to extract ancient DNA…...
Scientists Say: Midden
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (838+ words) Ancient trash heaps offer rare glimpses into day-to-day life of ancient people or animals Studying the discarded shells of this ancient dump site — called a midden — in Tasmania, Australia, helped modern archeologists learn about the diets of ancient Aboriginal people....