Paleontologist Alisa J. Winkler of Southern Methodist University says that human ancestors lived among abundant rodent populations. “Many paleoanthropologists are very interested in the faunal and ecological context in which our own species evolved,” she said.

Ten ancient coins have gone missing from a locked display case at the Anuradhapura Museum in Sri Lanka.  

A late nineteenth-century ship that ran aground in the 1920s has been exposed at Patea Beach, on New Zealand’s northern island.  

Can you spot a fake artifact? Discovery News and The Royal Ontario Museum want to know.  

National Geographic Daily News has more information on the discovery of children’s skeletons that bear evidence of ritual bloodletting sacrifice. The bones, which were cut with metal knives, were found with seeds from a paralytic and hallucinogenic plant at the site of Cerro Cerillos in northern Peru. 

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