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Primitive horse the size of a small dog that looked like a badger is reconstructed after a skeleton of the 48-million-year-old species is found in a German oil pit The horse specimen was recovered from the Messel Pit near Frankfurt in 2015 This UNESCO World Heritage site is famous for its stunningly preserved fossils Propalaeotherium voigti … Read more
Close-up threats that invade your personal space activate the brain’s primitive ‘survival instinct’ and are more likely to trigger PTSD than those that are further away, study says Researchers saw evolutionary older parts of the brain activated for near threats But those at least ten feet away activated problem-solving areas of the organ They said … Read more
A Chinese newspaper has slammed America’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and compared the US to ‘a primitive society’ in a recent opinion article. Beijing’s state media Global Times claimed that the US is ‘no match for China in terms of anti-epidemic organization and mobilization’ in a column published on Sunday. The startling comment was … Read more
Earth’s first primitive form was created in just five million years — much faster than had been previously thought, researchers have found. In fact, if the whole of the solar system’s history was condensed into a 24-hour-period, the Earth’s formation would have taken the equivalent of 90 seconds. In contrast, experts had thought that such would … Read more
‘Super-archaic’ human mated with the primitive ancestor of both Denisovans and Neanderthals 700,000 years ago Researchers used special software to compare the DNA of ancient human fossils They also found that Denisovans and Neanderthals split 600,000 years ago This is a much older estimate of the species’ divergence than proposed before By Ian Randall For Mailonline … Read more