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We tend to think humans domesticated wolves, but one influential hypothesis proposes some Ice Age wolves began the process themselves by scavenging around human camps, where the bolder, less fearful individuals that tolerated people gained easier access to food and may have left more descendants than their wary siblings
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (1066+ words) Ancient DNA from a 14,300-year-old jawbone in Somerset and a Siberian wolf pup's last meal is reshaping how we understand dog domestication, pointing toward wolves that essentially tamed themselves around Ice Age human camps. By The Long View · Edited by…...
Plain of Jars: 2000-Year-Old Natural Ecosystems Studied
1+ week, 6+ day ago (765+ words) The Core Concept: Researchers from the University of Copenhagen are studying the ancient stone jars on the Plain of Jars in Laos as miniature, 2,000-year-old freshwater ecosystems. Key Distinction/Mechanism: Unlike most ecological studies that observe manipulated systems over short…...
Archaeologists Dug up 25 Turtles Carved During the Ice Age. Their Purpose Is Still a Mystery.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (279+ words) Buried in a Turkish cave for millennia, the figurines may point to a long-lost mountain cult. The 25 recently discovered, rudimentarily-carved stone turtle figurines surrounding a curved architectural feature in a cave under Turkey’s Gedikkaya Hill must have had some sort…...
Snakes on a plate: Could reptile consumption have freed us to settle down?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1225+ words) Lizards and snakes comprised almost a third of the Natufian diet in northern Israel 15,000 years ago, but that doesn't mean eating them was a choice The snake slithered frantically into the underbrush, but it was too slow. It had been…...
How many wild dogs are there in the world? Scientists can't even agree???
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (485+ words) Raimund Linke / Getty Images A lot! After humans, domestic dogs are the fifth most numerous mammal on the planet with an estimated population of at least 700 million individuals. They were domesticated from grey wolves, which belong to the Canidae family,…...
Meet the 30-Million-Year-Old Dog That Climbed Trees Instead of Chasing Sticks
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (824+ words) A nearly complete fossil shows that one early dog combined climbing ability with a body unlike those of modern running canids. For more than 30 years, a fossil roughly 30 million years old remained sealed inside rock in an Oregon museum collection....
Israel Strips Crocodiles of Protected Status to Pave Way for Crocodile-Infested Moat
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (212+ words) Israel has revoked the protected status of Nile crocodiles to pave the way for a new prison modeled after the Trump administration’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE jail in the Florida Everglades. The proposal by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir…...
She Was Half Ape, Half Human—and She May Hold the Secret to What Makes Us Who We Are
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (421+ words) In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking. A 4.4-million-year-old female skeleton named Ardi may answer that question. Predating even the iconic Lucy by a million years, she belongs to the species Ardipithecus…...
Many Animals Use Complex Tools, Shattering Old Beliefs About Intelligence
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (836+ words) Home » Animals » Many Animals Use Complex Tools, Shattering Old Beliefs About Intelligence For most of human history, we told ourselves a comfortable story. We used tools, they did not. That was the line, and it felt clean. It felt safe....
In search of safer skies for birds - Features - Al-Ahram Weekly
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1053+ words) Mahmoud Bakr reviews Egypt’s efforts to protect migratory birds and monitor illegal hunting on the occasion of World Migratory Bird Day. Egypt is taking part in marking World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD), observed this year under the theme of “Every…...