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Reuters/SRF A well-preserved mummy in Basel, Switzerland, has long been a mystery. New analysis has found her identity: Anna Catharina Bischoff, an 18th-century clergyman’s wife, and distant ancestor of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. She’s his great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother. Her body is so well-preserved because of mercury used to treat her syphilis. A mummy whose corpse […]
Enlarge / The new finds include the most complete skull from the species yet. In 2015, researchers announced a surprising discovery: a completely new species in our own genus, Homo. Homo naledi was discovered not as a few bone fragments or even a single skeleton, but as a huge collection of bones from 14 individuals, […]
Before there were dinosaurs, there was this creature: the 10-foot, long-necked Telocrater. For a study published today in the journal Nature, a team of researchers analyzed the remains of Teleocrater rhadinus, a common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs. It walks on four legs, has a very long neck and tail, and can be seven to […]
