Young hobbits living on the Indonesian island of Flores may have been hunted by giant marabou storks. “In my opinion, the associated fauna is crucial in understanding the evolution of H. floresiensis,” said palaeontologist Hanneke Meijer of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Chris Kortlander, founding director of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Montana, […]

A burial dating to 500 B.C. has been unearthed within a pyramid mound at Chiapa de Corzo in Chiapas, Mexico. Bones of two men were found within the tomb, along with a turtle-shell pendant carved with an Olmec-style face.  Examination of the site of a proposed nuclear dump in Scotland has revealed an ancient burial […]