Tag: Japan
Massive trove of ancient coins dug up in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture
Archaeologists uncovered an estimated 100,000 ancient coins, some of which are of Chinese origin and are more than 2,000 years old.
The coins were tied together...
Unveiling Japan’s ancient practice of cranial modification: The case of the Hirota people in Tanegashima
A team of biological anthropologists and archaeologists from Kyushu University and the University of Montana have broken new ground in our understanding on the...
1,700-year-old Korean genomes show genetic heterogeneity in Three Kingdoms period Gaya
An international team led by The University of Vienna and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in collaboration with the National Museum...
New dinosaur species used fearsome claws to graze along the coast
Scientists have described the youngest therizinosaur fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments. Therizinosaurs were a...
Hubble finds a protoplanet that could upend planet formation models
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This...
Beheaded croc reveals ancient family secrets
The partially fossilized remains of a giant extinct crocodilian that could have been ritualistically beheaded explain how modern crocodilian species may have evolved. Discovered...