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Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

Love Dalén, Stockholm University and Anders Götherström, Stockholm University The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. In other words,...

States with the most dinosaur fossils

By Angela Underwood * Description: Stacker looks at the states with the most dinosaur fossils with help from the Paleobiology Database. Seven states have no fossils to be found, while only two have more than 1,000. States with the most dinosaur fossils Humans' fascination with dinosaurs goes back at least...