Category: HISTORY

June 20, 2024 at 9:33 am

Here’s What Earth’s First Spiders Looked Like 400 Million Years Ago

Source: Jason A. Dunlop/Wikimedia Commons

Ancient spiders had silk-producing organs under middle rather than their rear.

Read More »

June 19, 2024 at 12:33 pm

The Oldest Known Human Virus Was Found In A 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal

Source: Shutterstock

It’s a very compelling jumping off point for more research.

Read More »

June 19, 2024 at 9:40 am

Here’s Why So Many Ancient Statues Are Missing Their Noses

Source: Shutterstock

Nothing is new under the sun.

Read More »

June 17, 2024 at 3:38 pm

Scientists Can’t Quite Figure Out This Fossil Of A 308-Million-Years-Old Arachnid

Source: Paul A. Selden, Jason A. Dunlop

Scientists believe it could lead to more knowledge about prehistoric arachnids as a whole.

Read More »

June 14, 2024 at 12:38 pm

Recent Research Claiming Women In Hunter-Gatherer Societies Often Hunted Is Overblown, Suggests New Study

Source: Shutterstock

What’s up for debate is whether or not this was the norm.

Read More »

June 7, 2024 at 3:37 pm

How Earth Went Billions Of Years Without Experiencing Fire

Source: Shutterstock

It wasn’t until 383 million years ago when the first extensive wildfires took place.

Read More »

June 6, 2024 at 3:22 pm

Archaeologists Say They’ve Learned More About The Lost Colony Of Roanoke

Source: Lost Colony Foundation

The village was identified in 2023 after archaeologists discovered Algonquian pottery shards.

Read More »

June 6, 2024 at 12:30 pm

Here’s How A Human Child Who Was Part Neanderthal Rewrote History

Source: YouTube

All humans who are descended from outside of Africa are modern human-Neanderthal hybrids.

Read More »

May 27, 2024 at 3:24 pm

The “Near Collapse” Of Earth’s Magnetic Field In The Distant Past Might Have Been The Key To Complex Life

Source: Shutterstock

The rise in oxygen was a huge game changer.

Read More »

May 26, 2024 at 9:28 am

South African Rock Paintings Depict Unicorns, But Were They Ever Real?

Source: Cambridge

Local and indigenous reports of unicorn-like creatures continued

Read More »

Page 2 of 77