Author: Mary JL

Research examining traces of parasites in the remains of medieval Cambridge residents suggests that local friars were almost twice as likely as ordinary working townspeople to have intestinal worms – despite monasteries of the period having far more sanitary facilities. A new analysis of remains from medieval Cambridge shows that local Augustinian friars were almost…

Chinese palaeontologists have discovered an extraordinarily complete jurassic dinosaur skeleton. The fossil, found in Lufeng, south west China, is about 70 per cent intact and belongs to a dinosaur believed to have been nearly eight metres in length. It was discovered on a dig in late May in soil dating around 180 million years, to…

Finding human remains at the site of a famous battle isn’t usually very surprising. But it is in the case of the Battle of Waterloo, which ended Napoleon’s rule as emperor of France. Though up to 20,000 men died in the battle in modern-day Belgium on June 18, 1815, many bones were later burned or…

“We don’t just have a skeleton,” one researcher involved said. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.” Scientists are hailing it as the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever discovered. That’s why you cannot see its bones – they remain covered by intact skin and armor. Found accidentally by miners in Canada, this fossilized nodosaur…

Imagine what it’s like to find Europe’s largest dinosaur buried in your backyard?! Well, that’s what happened to this family! This giant dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a garden in Pompal, Portugal in 2017 by a man doing construction work on his house Fast-forward to 2022, a team of paleontologists from Portugal and Spain have…

A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada – the first such discovery in North America. The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon’s Klondike region on Tuesday. The area of the find belongs…

A well preserved mammoth carcass pulled from frozen sediments in the far north of Russia proves humans were present in the Arctic some 45,000 years ago. This is 10,000 years earlier than previous evidence had indicated. The extinct animal’s bones display distinctive cut marks that can only have been produced by stone and ivory-tipped hunting…

While investigating the Three Bridge Mill located near the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, UK scientists discovered an early Roman rare wooden carved figure. Initially, the researchers thought it was just a degraded piece of wood. As they continued to excavate it a humanlike, or anthropomorphic, the figure was revealed. The figure, cut from a single…

In order to widen a road in Sweden, archaeologists began excavating a large burial ground — but what they found surprised them. The burial ground in Västmanland had around 100 graves and two burial mounds dating from 600 to 1,000 A.D., archaeologists with Arkeologerna, a part of Sweden’s National Historical Museums agency, said in an…

Maize has always been the most important food crop in the Maya. According to the ancient creation myth of the Maya people, the gods created the first humans from maize dough and their bodies were believed to be made from maize. The Maize God who was known as Hun Hunahpu was undoubtedly an important deity…