Here are some articles we found interesting as we perused various feeds this week. We try to keep these articles in categories related to existing sections of our Academy.
Anthropology
- Neanderthals Used Glue to Make Stone Tools 40,000 Years Ago. A mixture of ochre and bitumen.
- We Finally Know What Turned The Lights on at The Dawn of Time. Small dwarf galaxies flared to life.
- The Great Wall is full of galaxies 15 million lightyears thick, stretching 500 million lightyears across the Universe.
- Living species of daddy longlegs has two additional sets of underdeveloped eyes as embryos. Fossilized specimen found in 2014 had another set of lateral eyes.
- ‘Frozen behaviors’ in amber fossils: How to reconstruct mating behavior of long-extinct termites. 38 million years ago, this pair got trapped in resin.
- An abundant sea anemone from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek LagerstÓ“tte, USA. This paper won an award for best publication of 2023. Previously thought of as jellyfish.