Primordial “Hyper-Eye” Discovered: Astonishing 390 Million-Year-Old Hyper-Compound Eye With 200 Lenses A fossilized trilobite first studied by an amateur palaeontologist half a century ago has provided researchers with a whole new way of seeing the world, in a very literal sense. X-rays taken of the ancient arthropod back in the early 1970s have been given …

What if We Aren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth? Earth scientists at the turn of the century, Gavin Schmidt among them, were enthralled by a 56-million-year-old segment of geologic history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). What most intrigued them was its resemblance to our own time: Carbon levels spiked, temperatures soared, ecosystems …

Evidence of advanced Civilizations living on earth more than 100,000 years ago It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Insтιтute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS), a world-class climate science facility. One day last year, I came to GISS with a far-out proposal. In my work …

Have any human societies ever lived underground? From ancient catacombs to modern subways, humans have always travelled underground for short periods of time. But has the entire society of people ever lived underground? Yes. However, historically only in emergencies and when there are no other options. But in the last few decades, it has begun …

In regards to a possible threat to Earth, ancient cuneiform tablets prove historically accurate Some 3,000 years ago, astrologers working for the king of the ᴀssyrian empire kept a close eye on the skies, and what they found and recorded on cuneiform tablets can give us incredibly valuable insights into things such as solar flares and other …

An Advanced Civilization Could Have Ruled Earth Millions of Years Ago, Says the Silurian Hypothesis Have you ever wondered if a different animal would evolve to have human-level intelligence, long after humans have pᴀssed away from this planet? We don’t know about you, but we always like to imagine raccoons in that role. Maybe 70 …

Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets | Neanderthals The idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the late 19th century, with evidence of human inhabitation of the forgotten world following in 1931 when …

Ljubljana Marshes Wheel: The Oldest Known Wheel in the World According to history books, the wheel was ‘invented’ in ancient Mesopotamia, around 3500 BCE and possibly as early as 4000 BCE. However, the oldest and largest wheel on Earth was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. The wheel dates back around 5,300 years, but could possibly be even …

Researchers Decipher Blood Groups of Neanderthals and Denisovans The extinct hominin lineages of the Neanderthals and Denisovans were present throughout Eurasia from 300,000 to 40,000 years ago. Despite prior sequencing of about 15 Neanderthal and Denisovan individuals, the study of the genes underlying blood groups had hitherto been neglected. Yet blood group systems were the …