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Fossil Teeth From An 11-year-old Reveal The Real Reason Humans Stay Kids So Long

A fossil found in Georgia is helping scientists answer a big question: why do humans have such a long childhood? Compared to ...
ZME Science on MSN

Ancient “Toothpick Marks” on Fossil Teeth May Not Be What We Thought

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Vikings May Have Used Body Modification as a ‘Sign of Identification’

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...
Men's Journal

Human Teeth Evolved From Body Armor of Extinct Species

View post: This World-Record Diver Shows the Power of Breath Control A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our ...
Ars Technica

Study: Three skulls of medieval Viking women were deliberately elongated

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...