New research by ASU paleoanthropologists gives valuable insight into how two ancient human ancestors coexisted in the same area
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With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof that two ancient species of hominins co-existed at the same time and in the same region.
An international team led by Covadonga Orejas, a researcher at the Gijón Oceanographic Centre of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC); Veerle Huvenne, a researcher at the UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC); and Jacob González-Solís, professor at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, has published the first comprehensive study on the seamounts of the Cape Verde archipelago, their biodiversity, ecological functionality and socio-economic relevance in the journal Progress in Oceanography.
New research from Anglia Ruskin University in England has found that most people struggle to recognise when a horse is in pain – a finding that could have serious implications for animal welfare.
The study, published in the journal Anthrozoös, is the first research to investigate how well people can spot discomfort in the faces of horses compared to in humans.