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OceaniaNº 2026·098 September 2026Not a Wolf After All: How the Thylacine Bit More Like a Croc and Spinosaurus Than a CanineNew study finds the thylacine's skull was a mosaic of traits with no analogue among living mammalian carnivores9 min read
Europe7 Sept 2026The 'Vampire' Woman of Pień: Why Did a 17th-Century Town Fear This Teenage Girl?8 min readAfrica3 Sept 2026Copper from Everywhere, Tin from One Valley: What Metal Fingerprints Reveal About Iron Age Trade9 min read31 Aug 2026SupportersTea Break August: Skinning Tigers, Geometric Reed, and a Grim Collection of Human Bones12 min readBeyond Borders31 Aug 2026The Pelvic Problem: How Neanderthal Hips Challenge Why We Think Childbirth is so Difficult9 min read
Oceania28 Aug 2026Wearing Wallabies: Twelve Wallaby Teeth That Turned Out to Be Jewelry9 min readOceania27 Aug 2026Painting Giants: Why Did Australia's Rock Art Suddenly Get So Big in the 1800s?8 min readEurope25 Aug 2026Built on Small Backs: How Child Labour Left Its Mark on Dutch Skeletons7 min readAmericas24 Aug 2026Monte Verde, Revisited (Again): What the Rebuttals Say10 min readAsia20 Aug 2026Mysterious Meaning: Eleven New Incised Arrowheads Found at Tepecik-Çiftlik7 min readEurope18 Aug 2026Necklace of the Dead: Archaeologists Discover a Neolithic Pendant, and It Was Made From a Human Tooth7 min readBeyond Borders17 Aug 2026Bird Brained: How Scientists Proved the Dodo Was Never That Dumb7 min readAsia14 Aug 2026The Brass Gap: How Ancient Crucibles Filled a 600-Year Historical Gap7 min readEurope12 Aug 2026The Bones Everyone Ignored: How Tiny Fragments Revealed Neanderthal Bone Tools in Romania7 min readEurope12 Aug 2026Left in the Arctic: How an Abandoned Fossil Turned Out to Be a Giant Predator7 min readAmericas7 Aug 2026Ancient Ornaments, Ancient Routes: What Two Shell Beads Reveal About ​California’s Deep Past8 min readEurope6 Aug 2026The Mystery of Brading Roman Villa: Evidence of a Late Roman Massacre?7 min readAmericas3 Aug 2026The Lost Civilizations of the Amazon: Did Millions of People Once Live in the Amazon Rainforest?8 min readEurope30 Jul 2026Buried in a Toilet: The Two Byzantine Babies That Ended Up in a Latrine Drain8 min readAfrica29 Jul 2026Divine Light: What do an Ibis, Baboon and the God of the Moon Have in Common?7 min read