Seventeen lentil plants sprouted from 4,000-year-old lentils unearthed in western Turkey are ready to be transplanted outside. “Our plants are living in a sterile environment, but we don’t know what will happen when they’re planted in the field,” said Nuket Bingol of Dumlupinar University. A team led by French archaeologists has returned to work in […]

Six million years ago, Orrorin tugenensis may have had human-like thumbs. “This calls into question hypotheses linking modern human thumb anatomy specifically to stone tool production,” commented Erin Marie Williams of George Washington University. Mollusk shells unearthed from ancient burials in Peru are offering information to scientists about the oceans, the El Nino cycle, and […]