Extinct after all
The best evidence for the continued existence of the ivory-billed woodpecker, believed extinct for decades until “captured” on video two years ago, has been discredited. A video analysis of the common pileated woodpecker to be published in BMC Biology shows it has the colour pattern and wingbeat frequency thought to be unique to the ivory-bill.
Even earlier humans
Modern humans were around at least 100,000 years earlier than we thought, if the teeth in a fossil jawbone are anything to go by. The 160,000-year-old teeth, found in Morocco, show growth patterns more similar to living …
