King of Antarctica

Hominins had pronounced brow ridges, but modern humans evolved mobile eyebrows as their face shape became smaller.On the left is a 13,000-year-old footprint as found in the sediment on Calvert Island, off the Canadian Pacific coast. The world's oldest intact shipwreck was found by a research team in the Black Sea. The snake is coiled around with its hindlimbs on top of the remains of a jaw bone from a small charcharodontosaurid dinosaur.University of South Carolina archaelogist Christopher Moore (second from right) and colleagues collect core samples from White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, to look for evidence of an impact from an asteroid or comet that may have caused the extinction of large ice-age animals such as sabre-tooth cats and giant sloths and mastodons.Core samples from White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, show evidence of platinum spikes and soot indicative of an impact from an asteroid or comet.The Sosnogorsk lagoon as it likely appeared 372 million years ago just before a deadly storm, according to an artist's rendering.

In the Antarctic, the native inhabitants are particularly at risk. "Antarctica is one of those places on Earth, like the bottom of the sea, where we're still in the very early stages of exploration. It was a fearsome predator that lived during the Late Jurassic Period millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex.Remains found in ancient Herculaneum boat houses revealed that people trying to flee the eruption of Mount Vesuvius slowly suffocated as volcanic clouds overtook the town.The Wulong bohaiensis fossil found in China's Jehol Province shows some early, intriguing aspects that relate to both birds and dinosaurs. Although they and other predators have been absent from the continental slope and shelf around Antarctica for millions of years, one group, the king crabs, have been living in the neighbouring deep ocean.In the deep ocean around Antarctica, water temperatures have historically been warmer than on the continental shelf. But this situation is With the increasing temperatures come new residents. The researchers determined that she played donkey polo and was buried with her donkeys so that she may continue her favorite sport in the afterlife.Hundreds of mammoth bones found at a site in Russia were once used by hunter-gatherers to build a massive structure 25,000 years ago.A fossil of an ancient rudist clam called Torreites sanchezi revealed that Earth's days lasted 23.5 hours 70 million years ago. The sharp tips served as arrow points.This labeled map shows the complete ancient Roman city of Falerii Novi as it currently exists underground.Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the 1950s are seen here.This is one of the 408 human footprints preserved at the Engare Sero site in Tanzania. This adolescent was found lying on his side, which suggests a slower death. Now, driven by warming waters, their arrival heralds a major upset. This image shows a young female Denisovan, reconstructed based on DNA methylation maps. This duckbilled animal was the first reptile to have unusually small eyes that most likely required it to use other senses, such as the tactile sense of its duckbill, to hunt for prey.Although it's hard to spot, researchers found flecks of lapis lazuli pigment, called ultramarine, in the dental plaque on the lower jaw of a medieval woman.A Neanderthal fossil, left, and a modern human skeleton. A 250,000-year-old Neanderthal child's tooth contains an unprecedented record of the seasons of birth, nursing, illness and lead exposures over the first three years of its life.An artist's illustration shows giant nocturnal elephant birds foraging in the ancient forests of Madagascar at night. "We thought that Antarctic animals would be similar to the ones that were living in southern Africa, since those landmasses were joined back then. Researchers say they represent the oldest stegosaurus found.The La Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal skull shows signs of external auditory exostoses, known as "surfer's ear" growths, in the left canal.The Fincha Habera rock shelter in the Ethiopian Bale Mountains served as a residence for prehistoric hunter-gatherers.The world's largest parrot, Heracles inexpectatus, lived 19 million years ago in New Zealand. A yellow sea lily (top) and brittle stars on the continental shelf off Antarctica.King crabs on the continental slope off Antarctica.Common animals on the continental shelf include fragile sea spiders, lightly skeletonized brittle stars, and soft-bodied sea cucumbers.Society going viral! This is an artist's impression of dinosaurs on prehistoric mudflat in Scotland, based on varied dinosaur footprints recovered on the Isle of Skye.

It is most well-known for having big teeth and hefty chewing muscles. The army is composed of king crabs. A composite of the 3.8 million-year-old cranium of Australopithecus anamensis is seen here alongside a facial reconstruction.The remains inside grave IIIN199, found under Prague Castle in 1928, belong to a man from the 10th century. It lived between 1.5 million and 2 million years ago.This jawbone belonged to a Neanderthal girl who lived 120,000 years ago. This donkey skull was recovered in a Tang Dynasty noblewoman's tomb. The upper jawbone, including several teeth, was recovered in a prehistoric cave site.This is an excavated structure at the northern edge of the Grand Plaza at Teposcolula-Yucundaa in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The art was created by Maayan Harel.Researchers found a fossil of one of the oldest bird species in New Zealand. This is the first depiction of what mysterious ancient humans called Denisovans, a sister group to Neanderthals, looked like. Its skull more closely resembles a koala.An artist's illustration of Cryodrakon boreas, one of the largest flying animals that ever lived during the Cretaceous period.