Posted on April 26, 2017A 130,000-Year-Old Mastodon Threatens to Upend Human History Ancient tools scattered around a mastodon suggest that the earliest humans showed up in North American more than 100,000 years earlier than we thought. The post A 130,000-Year-Old Mastodon Threatens to Upend Human History appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on March 13, 2017Plants Might Have Saved Earth From Permanent Ice Age It's plants, its rocks, its microscopic organisms living deep in the sea—it's why most humans get to enjoy glacier-free lifestyles. The post Plants Might Have Saved Earth From Permanent Ice Age appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on February 29, 2016Prehistoric Climate Scientists Get Into a Modern-Day Turf War In recent years, a number of paleoclimatologists have criticized the Coexistence Approach, citing everything from flawed methodology to bad data. The post Prehistoric Climate Scientists Get Into a Modern-Day Turf War appeared first on WIRED.