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DNA Reveals Family Bonds Shaped 5,500-Year-Old Burials on Gotland’s Baltic Coast
On a windswept stretch of the Baltic coast, long before Scandinavia’s medieval towns or Viking ships, families were making deliberate choices about where their dead would rest. Now, new genetic research is showing that those decisions were anything but accidental. A major archaeogenetic study led by researchers at Uppsala University has reconstructed family relationships within…
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355-Million-Year-Old Fossil Footprints Rewrite the Timeline of Reptile Evolution
A fossil slab discovered in Australia has revealed the oldest known clawed footprints, dating back 355 million years. The groundbreaking find pushes the origin of reptiles 35 million years earlier than previously believed and reshapes the evolutionary history of tetrapods. The study, led by researchers at Uppsala University, has been published in Nature. Ancient Footprints…