In a initially for paleontology, scientists have located hundreds of very small, fossilized fecal pellets crammed within a fish braincase courting to about 9 million years back. The wee fossil poops, also recognised as coprolites, had been deposited by scavengers – probably worms – that devoured the fish’s decaying head, such as […]
cranium
Journey of a skull: How a single human cranium wound up alone in a cave in Italy
Image: MLC on the top rated of the shaft and Lucia Castagna, the younger archaeologist of GSB-USB that secured and recovered the cranium (Archive SABAP-BO/GSB-USB, ph. F. Grazioli) see more Credit score: Belcastro et al, 2021, PLOS One (CC-BY 4., https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4./) A lone cranium in an Italian cave wound up there […]