Neanderthal Roommates, Sea Dragons, Hidden Egyptian

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Hear about a new archeological site that suggests humans arrived in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, what a giant fossil could teach us about the fearsome sea dragon, and a massive archeological find in Egypt!

European humans.

Homo Sapiens May Have Reached Europe 10,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought by Bruce Bower
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/homo-sapiens-humans-europe-migration-earlier-france-rock-shelter
Modern Human Incursion into Neanderthal Territories 54,000 Years Ago at Mandrin, France by Ludovic Slimak, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9496
Apidima Cave Fossils Provide Earliest Evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia by Katerina Harvati, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z

Dragons of the sea.

Huge Prehistoric 'Sea Dragon' Fossil Discovered in U.K. Reservoir by Rachel Elbaum
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/prehistoric-sea-dragon-ichthyosaur-fossil-discovered-uk-reservoir-rcna11565
Ichthyosaur Fossil Reptile Group by Encyclopedia Britannica
- https://www.britannica.com/animal/ichthyosaur
Rutland Sea Dragon: How Remarkable Ichthyosaur Fossil Was Protected by Greig Watson
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-59969089
“The World-Renowned Ichthyosaurus”: A Nineteenth-Century Problematic and Its Representations" by John Glendening
- https://doi.org/10.12929%2Fjls.02.1.02

Lost city.

Archaeologists in Egypt Discover 3,000-Year-Old ‘Lost Golden City’ by Livia Gershon
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-3400-year-old-egyptian-city-180977471/
Renowned Archaeologist Zahi Hawass Announces Discovery of Luxor’s ‘Lost City’ by Mustafa Marie
- https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/100658/Renowned-archaeologist-Zahi-Hawass-announces-discovery-of-Luxor%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98Lost-City%E2%80%99
The Rise and Fall of Zahi Hawass by Joshua Hammer
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-zahi-hawass-72874123/
'Lost Golden City' Found in Egypt Reveals Lives of Ancient Pharaohs by BBC News
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56686448

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.8	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.1	I'm Nate.
0:12.1	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to Curiosity
0:15.3	where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal
0:18.8	listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a new archaeological site that suggests humans arrived in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought,
0:27.5	what a giant fossil could teach us about the fearsome sea dragon,
0:31.5	and a massive archaeological find in Egypt.
0:35.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:38.0	All right, I've got incredible and surprising news about human origins.
0:42.0	New research suggests we may have interacted with Neanderthals
0:45.6	for thousands more years than previously thought.
0:48.0	Well, hang on, I didn't know we interacted with them at all.
0:50.6	Right, okay, so I'll take a step back.
0:53.8	Homosapians evolved in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, but it would be another
0:58.4	hundred thousand years or so before we started leaving the continent to explore. By the time we made our way to Europe
1:04.0	thousands of years after that though much of the land had long been inhabited by a
1:07.7	close relative of ours the Neanderthal who was more naturally inclined to survive
1:12.0	cold weather though they would soon die out.
1:14.4	So when did we actually make it to Europe then?
1:17.0	Most anthropologists had believed we didn't make it all the way there until about,
1:20.4	46,000 years ago, but recent discoveries in a rock shelter found in southern France
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