(Photo: Anne Nygård/Unsplash)The remains of a man buried in what’s now Alabama reveals that the continent’s oldest skull surgery occurred at least 3,000 years ago. The man’s skeleton was discovered during the 1940s at Little Bear Creek, a reservoir in northwest Alabama. The skeleton was accompanied by 162 others under …
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Ornithologists have discovered a new genus and species of tanager on the lower slopes of the Andes in southeastern Peru and western Bolivia. The Inti tanager (Heliothraupis oneilli). Image credit: Louisiana State University / Lane et al., doi: 10.1093/ornithology/ukab059. Tanagers are a large family, Thraupidae, of more than 370 songbird …
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The Cronica universalis, written in Latin by the Milanese friar Galvaneus Flamma (in Italian, Galvano Fiamma, 1283 – c. 1345), contains an astonishing reference to a land named Marckalada (terra que dicitur Marckalada), situated west from Greenland. This land is recognizable as the Markland mentioned by some Icelandic sources and …
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Researchers digging at the Cerutti Mastodon site, an archaeological site from the early late Pleistocene epoch near San Diego, California, found animal remains and stone tools that show the first humans were living in North America much earlier than previously thought. A concentration of fossil bone and rock at the …
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Brazilian taxonomists have discovered and described three new species of the ‘bird-eating’ tarantula genus Avicularia from Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Avicularia merianae, female. Image credit: H.-W. Auer. The description is published in a new issue of the journal ZooKeys, authored by Dr. Caroline Sayuri Fukushima and Dr. Rogério Bertani, researchers …
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Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern Yukon, Canada. Top: cut marks on a horse mandible from Bluefish Cave II; the specimen is dated to 19,650 years before present; the bone surface is a …
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Fate/Extella:The Umbral Star will launch for PlayStation 4 and PS vita in North America on January 17, publisher XSEED Games announced. Earlier today, Marvelous Europe announced a European release date of January 20. In addition to the standard release, a “Noble Phantasm Edition” will contain a 7.5” by 6.3” hardcover …
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The Central American backpacker trail differs greatly from its Southeast Asian and European cousins. It’s a different monster; a much more good-looking, older, hiking monster. Traveling through CA proved over and over again that any expectations I carried from previous trips must be thrown out the window. This was slightly to …
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Whew. After more than 7 months of blog posts I am finally concluding my coverage of South America. Next week I’ll have lots of Fiji stories to share with you. But first, a look back: Colombia Colombia was the first country we visited and it remained my favorite of the …
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Wild Guns Reloaded, the revival of the classic Super Nintendo shooting gallery game, will launch for PlayStation 4 in North America and Europe on December 20, publisher Natsume announced. In North America, it will available as both a physical and digital release. The game was previously dated for a December …
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