Anay Ganesh

The K.T. Extinction

In between Mars and Jupiter lies an asteroid belt composed of different asteroids floating around, sometimes hitting one another. It was in one of these crashes that a 6-mile wide, 66,000 lb chunk of space rock was sent on a crash course toward Earth at 25,000 mph at what is now Yucatan Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico. InContinue reading “The K.T. Extinction”

Dromaeosaurus

Dromaeosaurus is a fast, agile and feathered predatory dromaeosaur dinosaur. Dromaeosaurus means “fast lizard”. Dromaeosaurus’s killing weapon is a sickle shaped claw that is held upwards when walking or running but slashes downwards when gripping and attacking the prey. Its hunting style is jump on prey’s back, grip with their hand claws and slash withContinue reading “Dromaeosaurus”

Homo neanderthalensis

Homo neanderthalensis lived in Europe from 600,000 – 30,000 years ago. The first fossil was found near the town of Neanderthal in Germany. Miners found a skull cap or Cranium and their boss showed it to his friend, a scientist. He named it Homo neanderthalensis (“Man from Neanderthal”). It was five years after Charles DarwinContinue reading “Homo neanderthalensis”

Homo ergaster

Homo ergaster, which lived from 1.9 – 1.8 million years ago, was the first hominid species to walk away from Africa and into Europe and Asia. Homo ergaster could talk to each other in their own language (which was made of a few sounds). Homo ergaster means “Working Man”. Homo ergaster had new techniques: handContinue reading “Homo ergaster”

Lucy – the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil

Lucy is a young female fossil of Australopithecus afarensis that lived around 3.2 million years ago. On the Afar desert in Ethiopia, anthropologist Donald Johanson and his student Thomas Gray were taking a walk when they saw bits and pieces of fossil bone. They tried to put it together and it joined perfectly! They namedContinue reading “Lucy – the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil”

Homo heidelbergensis

Homo heidelbergensis was an early human. It was almost human, but lacked one thing – imagination. They couldn’t think “what if?”. Homo heidelbergensis means “man from Heidelberg”. Heidelberg is a town in Germany. They lived during the Anglian ice age around 380,000 years ago. Homo heidelbergensis had a very wide nose that it stretched almostContinue reading “Homo heidelbergensis”