The Aegean coast of Ayvalık in Turkey is composed of numerous islands and peninsulas today, but the region looked quite different 2.58 million—11,700 years ago during the Pleistocene Ice Age. During ...
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Ancient land bridge discovery: How humans migrated to Europe during the last Ice Age
Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...
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Hippos in the Ice Age: Ancient DNA rewrite Europe’s wildlife story
For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...
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How the ‘Dark Ages’ Got Their Name
The term “Dark Ages” emerged to describe the centuries following the fall of Rome, often seen as a period of decline and chaos. This exploration looks at how the label originated, why historians now ...
DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.
Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of ...
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