Facial recognition software has helped recreate faces of Czech royals who died more than a thousand years ago. Researchers used radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis to identify the remains of Duke Spytihněv I and his brother, Vratislav, who died within a few years of each other in the early 10th century. The team scanned the … Read more
Facial recognition software has helped recreate faces of Czech royals who died more than a thousand years ago. Researchers used radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis to identify the remains of Duke Spytihněv I and his brother, Vratislav, who died within a few years of each other in the early 10th century. The team scanned the … Read more
Faces of ‘Siberian Tutankhamun’ and his sacrificed concubine are reconstructed using their 2,600-year-old rotting skulls uncovered from a 262-foot wide burial mound The reconstructed faces are of a king and concubine that died 2,600 years ago The remains were discovered in a massive burial mound in 1997 Half of the king’s skull was missing and … Read more
A complete dinosaur brain has been reconstructed by scientists for the first time after a ‘perfect skeleton’ was found – and the brain weighed less than a pea. Palaeontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, used computer images to reveal the size and inner workings of the Buriolestes brain. The team were able to determine … Read more
A ‘mummy portrait’ was found fixed on an ancient Egyptian casket that belonged to a young boy who died between 50 BC and 100 AD – and researches set out to see how accurate it is to his real face. Using a CT scanner, the team uploaded a virtual construction of the child’s skull, still … Read more
A tiny dormouse, sleepily curled in a ball, can fit in the palm of someone’s hand. But two million years ago, dormice existed which were as big as a cat. Incredibly, scientists have described a giant dormouse previously unimaginable outside of the pages of Alice in Wonderland. The creature, whose four-inch (10cm) skull has been … Read more