frankcreedJul 20, 20201 min readScientists accidentally create unlikely fish hybridYou may be familiar with animal hybrids like the mule—a cross between a female horse and male donkey—or a liger—the enormous offspring of...
frankcreedJul 15, 20202 min readScientists Find Traces of Ancient Rainforests in AntarcticaOf all the continents on the surface of the planet, none is perhaps as mysterious and beautiful as Antarctica. Since time immemorial, the...
frankcreedJul 14, 20201 min readAncient Spear Rewriting the History of Humans in North AmericaThe spear points were unearthed at a site in Texas and are around 15,500 years old, which pre-dates the earliest known settlers on the...
frankcreedJul 13, 20202 min readScientists think they solved the mystery behind Earth's first mass extinction.The Earth has gone through five mass extinctions, and is now experiencing its sixth. The causes of our current event are pretty obvious,...
frankcreedJul 11, 20201 min readRock Art in India of an Unknown Civilization 10,000 to 12,000 years oldThe discovery of countless rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India has caused excitement among...
frankcreedJul 9, 20201 min readScientists Revive 32,000-Year-Old Plant Right Out of the PleistoceneThe oldest plant ever to be “resurrected” has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds, beating the previous record holder by some 30,000...
frankcreedJul 7, 20201 min readSCIENTISTS TO CLONE EXTINCT HORSE USING 42,000-YEAR-OLD BLOODLast year, scientists found a 42,000-year-old Lena Horse foal — those are extinct, by the way — frozen in Siberian permafrost. Now, they...
frankcreedJul 5, 20201 min readThe world's oldest living tree.Old Tjikko (Sweden)c . . . The world’s oldest known living tree sprouted sometime during the last Ice Age, roughly 9,550 years ago. This...
frankcreedJul 1, 20201 min readHow life blossomed after the dinosaurs diedIn 2014, when Ian Miller and Tyler Lyson first visited Corral Bluffs, a fossil site 100 kilometers south of the Denver Museum of Nature &...
frankcreedJun 30, 20201 min readPaleontologists Find 75 million-year-old Dinosaur DNA And Proteins In FossilIn Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel, scientists extracted blood-sucking insects from amber, removed the dinosaur blood from their...
frankcreedJun 25, 20201 min read20,000 year-old fossilized giant armadillos discovered in ArgentinaThe resting place of ancient armadillos that roamed the earth some 20,000 years ago has been discovered in Argentina. A farmer stumbled...
frankcreedJun 24, 20202 min readAt 2.2 Billion Years Old, This is the Oldest Impact Crater on EarthAround 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet leaving a massive scar. Around 200 million years older...
frankcreedJun 22, 20201 min readCanadian village 10,000 years older than the PyramidsFor hundreds (maybe thousands) of years, generations of the Heiltsuk Nation, an indigenous group in British Columbia, have passed down...
frankcreedJun 18, 20201 min readDamascus, Syria is among the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus was an important cultural and commercial centre, by virtue of its geographical position at...
frankcreedJun 17, 20202 min readThis Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a MosasaurIn 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a football-sized fossil off the coast of Seymour Island, near the northern tip of the Antarctic...
frankcreedJun 16, 20202 min readSecret “Baby Dragons” Finally Go On Display In Slovenian CaveThe Postojna Cave in Slovenia, a karst cave formed from drops of water eroding rock over millions of years, has been harboring a secret...
frankcreedJun 13, 20202 min readArchery Could Date Back 48,000 Years in South AsiaAncient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of...
frankcreedJun 10, 20201 min readTiny 13,000 year-old Chinese bird figurine is the country's oldest known artwork.A tiny carving of a bird, found in a discarded pile of soil, has now been declared the oldest work of art ever found in China. The figure...
frankcreedJun 9, 20201 min readSCIENTISTS MELTED ANCIENT ICE AND A LONG-DEAD WORM WRIGGLED OUTWhen a team of biologists melted some Siberian permafrost to look for microbes, an ancient survivor waved hello. On University of...
frankcreedJun 8, 20201 min readThe Oldest Defensive Wall on Earth Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid by 5,300 YearsLocated in the city of Jericho in the West Bank, we find another bewildering structure, a wall that is arguably the oldest defensive wall...
