33,000-year-old fossil suggests dogs arose in multiple places

[National Geographic] The fossilized remains of a canine found in the 1970s in southern Siberia's Altay Mountains is the earliest well-preserved pet dog.  More...

Northern Humans Had Bigger Brains, to Cope With the Low Light Levels, Study Finds

[Science Daily]  Scientists have found that people living in countries with dull, grey, cloudy skies and long winters have evolved bigger eyes and brains so they can visually process what they see.  More...

Oldest Fossils On Earth Discovered

[Science Daily]  Found in Australia by a team from the University of Western Australia and Oxford University, the microscopic fossils show convincing evidence for cells and bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago.  More...

13,000 year old petroglyphs of mammoths found in Utah

[Archaeo News]  Until now, no unambiguously ancient rock art imagery of Ice Age megafauna has been found in North America.  More...

Iceman Had Bad Teeth

[Discovery News]  The 5,300-year-old mummy suffered from cavities, possibly brought on by a high-carb diet.  More...

Sunken Treasure Found in the Seas Of Sicily

[Discovery News] Italian archaeologists have retrieved a sunken treasure of 3,422 ancient bronze coins in the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria.  More...

Black Death Study Lets Rats off the Hook

[Heritage Daily] "The evidence just isn't there to support it."  More...

Experts Say Butch Cassidy May Have Survived Shootout

[Slate]   The famous Old West outlaw allegedly killed in a Bolivia shootout may have survived quietly into old age.  More...

Early human ancestors were more advanced than first thought and sailed the high seas

[Daily Mail]  Archeologists now believe that man was crossing the Mediterranean Sea from northern Africa at least 130,000 years ago - more than 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.   More...

Mystery Fossils Link Fungi to Ancient Mass Extinction

[Wired News] Of the five mass extinctions in the Earth’s past, one stands above the rest in magnitude: the Permian-Trassic extinction, known as the Great Dying.  More...

Ancient Egypt was destroyed by drought

[The Scotsman] "There were great riots, and anarchy breaking out as a result of it." More...

Is this Captain Henry Morgan's ship hull?

[BBC]  Archaeologists from Texas State University believe they have uncovered a ship found near the site where Welsh Admiral Sir Henry Morgan's ships wrecked in 1671. More...

Egypt's Lost Fleet—It's Been Found

[Discover] The discovery of 
an ancient harbor on 
the Red Sea proves 
ancient Egyptians 
mastered oceangoing technology and 
launched a series of 
ambitious expeditions 
to far-off lands. More...

Ancient City Mysteriously Survived Mideast Civilization Collapse

[Live Science] Why did Tell Qarqur, a site in northwest Syria, grow at a time when cities across the Middle East were being abandoned?  More...

Archaeologists Unearthing Major City-State in Jordan

[Popular Archaeology] Many scholars are suggesting that the textual and archaeological evidence may indeed support the hypothesis that the remains of Tall el Hammam represent the remnants of the ancient city of Sodom. More...

All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm

[Discovery News] If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. More...

Gold hoard found in French cellar

[BBC] A French couple have found a hoard of gold coins worth at least $140,000 in the cellar of their home. They were working on their drains when they dug up the 34 coins in a little clay pot, French media said. The coins date from 1595 to the French Revolution said a local coin expert.  More...

Ancestry of Polar Bears Traced to Ireland

[ScienceDaily] — An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the peak of the last ice age -- 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. More...

Was it really a meteor that killed the dinosaurs?

[ScienceDaily]— A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence as to whether the impact was in fact the cause of their extinction. More...

Navajo code talker shares his story

[Yuma Sun]  A surviving Navajo code talker who served in the Pacific theater of World War II was in Yuma Saturday to share his story during the Spirit of Yuma Military Festival....During the early months of the war, Japanese intelligence had broken every code the U.S. had devised, giving them a great advantage in military strategy.“We were in bad shape, so the Marines decided to look for another code,” Toledo said.That is when civilian Philip Johnston realized the Navajo language could be turned into an unbreakable code.  More...