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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

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Archaeologists, paleontologists and conservators surround the tusk of a straight-tusked elephant, discovered at Kibbutz Revadim, southern Israel, in August 2022. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)
August 31, 2022, 2:21 pm
Giant prehistoric elephant tusk uncovered in southern Israel
Academics seek to study rare find to learn about significance of such remains in early human culture; Antiquities Authority says fossil will go on display after preservation
By Michael Horovitz
A rock structure scientists at University College London believe could contain the earliest fossils of life ever found. (UCL)
April 16, 2022, 9:02 pm
Scientists believe they may have found Earth’s oldest life — 4.2 billion years old
If confirmed, microfossil study would show life on Earth might have emerged a mere 300 million years after planet’s formation
By ToI Staff
The top (a), rear (b), bottom (c) and front (d) view of the vertebra discovered at the 'Ubeidiya site. (Courtesy/Dr. Alon Barash)
February 2, 2022, 12:04 pm
Scientists find oldest evidence of humans in Israel — a 1.5 million-year-old bone
An ancient vertebra from an archaic hominin species child gives ‘unambiguous’ evidence of migrations out of Africa, Israeli researchers say
By Luke Tress
This undated photo made available by the National Park Service in September 2021 shows fossilized human footprints at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. (NPS via AP)
September 24, 2021, 5:47 am
New Mexico footprints show humans walked in North America some 23,000 years ago
Scientists manage to date seeds discovered in fossilized prints, giving a more definitive time frame to question of when people first arrived in Americas
By Agencies
These microscopic 890-million-year-old fossils found in the Northwest Territories are thought to be the remains of an ancient sponge. (Elizabeth Turner/Laurentian University)
July 28, 2021, 9:50 pm
Earliest animal fossils, almost 1 billion years old, said discovered in Canada
Geologist Elizabeth Turner discovered the rocks containing ancient sponges in a remote region of the Northwest Territories accessible only by helicopter
By CHRISTINA LARSON
IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny fossils of rodents from the excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 22, 2020, 3:52 pm
Fossils show 1st intrepid humans left Africa 200,000 years ago for an icy Israel
Discovery of fossils of cold-climate rodents alongside remains of region’s 1st modern humans shows they arrived from hot cradle of Africa during Ice Age, but were able to adapt
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
File: Uncovered dinosaur egg fossils (AP Photo/Luisa Ferreira)
February 14, 2020, 7:03 pm
Israeli scientists say dinosaur egg fossils point to warm blood
New research technique employed at Hebrew University allowed team to gauge temperature in which eggs were formed — and thus whether mother could regulate her body heat
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Hadrosaurus at Drexel University in Philadelphia. (YouTube screenshot)
February 10, 2020, 8:55 pm
Israeli researchers find modern tumor in dinosaur tail
Scientists say LCH, which affects human children today, discovered in fossil of 66-million-year-old Hadrosaurus
By ToI Staff
This image provided by the University of Tuebingen in Germany shows the Apidima 1 partial cranium fossil, right, with a piece of rock still attached, and its digital reconstruction from a posterior view, middle, and a side view, left. The rounded shape of the Apidima 1 cranium is a unique feature of modern humans and contrasts sharply with Neanderthals and their ancestors. (Katerina Harvati/University of Tuebingen via AP)
July 11, 2019, 10:05 am
Predating Israeli find, earliest sign of man out of Africa said found in Greece
Chunk of skull thought to be 210,000 years old, making it at least 16,000 years older than jawbone found in Israel; some scientists not convinced fossil’s reported age is correct
By Malcolm Ritter
Taking a walk on a camel's back in the Judean Desert adjacent to Arad. (Courtesy Kfar Hanokdim)
April 27, 2019, 6:39 am
36 hours in Arad, at the edge of the Judean and Negev deserts
Take a break in this activity-filled southern town, where desert life and civilization meet up perfectly
By Jessica Steinberg
This image provided by the Sharma Center for Heritage Education, India in January 2018 shows a sample of artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic era found at the Attirampakkam archaeological site in southern India (Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu/Sharma Center for Heritage Education, India via AP)
February 1, 2018, 4:09 am
Stone tools in India suggest earlier human exit from Africa
Following Israeli jawbone discovery, new report shows Homo sapiens may have existed in Asia as far back as 385,000 years ago — though some experts are doubtful
By AP and ToI Staff
High resolution image of 177,000 to 194,000-year-old Misliya 1 maxilla (Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna, Austria)
January 25, 2018, 9:01 pm
Jawbone fossil found in Israeli cave resets clock for modern human evolution
Dated to 170,000-200,000 years ago, bone is the earliest known record of Homo sapiens outside of Africa, and indicates long period of intermingling between human species
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Compound eyes of a modern-day bee. (Gewoldi/iStock, by Getty Images)
December 10, 2017, 9:38 am
‘Oldest-ever eye’ revealed in 530-million-year-old fossil
Ocean-dwelling creature could make out predators and obstacles; had compound eyes similar to today’s bees, but no lenses
By Sue Surkes
Earth (Public domain, US government, Wikipedia)
September 28, 2017, 12:18 pm
Japanese researchers believe life on Earth nearly 4 billion years old
Research team says graphite samples found in rocks in Canada suggest life on the planet older than previously believed
By AFP
This photo taken on June 23, 2015, shows a replica of a skeleton of a Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a bizarre genus of herbivorous dinosaur, exhibited at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)
August 16, 2017, 5:53 pm
New find shakes up theory on dinosaur evolution
Researchers say Chilesaurus, the ‘most bizarre dinosaur ever found,’ is a missing link pointing at a common ancestor for theropods and ornithischians
By Marlowe HOOD
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