Just as a picture gets divided into figure and ground, we divide the social world into us and them. How does that happen? Did it help our ancestors to thrive? Could we stop doing it in the name of peace and harmony? Source: The Tribal Problem | Psychology Today
New archaeological research has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were ‘lazy’. Source: Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus — ScienceDaily
See what our planet looked like when dinosaurs roamed freely. Source: See what Earth looked like from space when it was ruled by dinosaurs – CNET
Researchers have discovered a new dinosaur which roamed the Ningxia Autonomous Region, northwest China, approximately 174 million years ago. This is in a place they were never thought to roam and 15 million years earlier than this type of dinosaur was thought to exist. Source: New dinosaur found in the wrong place, at the wrong… Read More New dinosaur found in the wrong place, at the wrong time — ScienceDaily
The dinosaur foot known as ‘Bigfoot,’ described in a new scientific paper recently published in the open-access journal PeerJ — the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, was excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, with Anthony Maltese, lead author of the study, as member of the crew. After detailed preparation… Read More Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever — ScienceDaily
The research team, from the Universities of Exeter, Leeds and Antwerp, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, used mathematical models to link up the emergence of animals to a global warming event that occurred around 520 million years ago. Source: Scientists Just Found The Cause of Earth’s First Global Warming That Triggered Mass Extinctions Comment –… Read More Scientists Just Found The Cause of Earth’s First Global Warming That Triggered Mass Extinctions
Earth looked very different 600 million years ago Source: Ancient Earth globe Scroll thru the millions to see how we have changed. Might make us all think a bit…
