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Josh Davis

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Writer and Digital News Editor at The Natural History Museum London

Natural history writer | Queer nature, eels and embroidery | He/him | ✏️🏛🦦 | Author: A Little Gay Natural History 🌈

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  • 2 months ago | nhm.ac.uk | Josh Davis |Beatrice Boutayre |James Ashworth

    By Josh Davis, Beatrice Boutayre and James AshworthThe ancient human species Homo luzonensis is one of the most recent branches to be added to the human evolutionary tree. It’s also one of our most mysterious ancient relatives, with only a handful of Homo luzonensis fossils discovered so far. Find out more about this miniature member of our extended family. The story of human evolution is not straightforward.

  • Dec 19, 2024 | nhm.ac.uk | Josh Davis

    Sauron’s piranha and DiCaprio’s snakeThe fossil poop was not alone with getting a literary name. This year saw the description of two new vegetarian piranhas, or pacus. One was named Myloplus sauron due to its flame red fins and prominent black stripe which reminded researchers of the main antagonist in The Lord of the Rings. The fish comes from the Xingu River in Brazil, but the building of a dam across the stretch of the water where the fish is found has put its future at risk.

  • Dec 4, 2024 | nhm.ac.uk | Josh Davis

    When our ancestors migrated out of Africa, they entered a world already filled with a range of other human species. But questions about when and how these all evolved mean that it can be tricky to trace our origins and pinpoint the exact steps that resulted in our own species’ evolution. Part of the problem comes down to issues in deciding when to name fossils as new species.

  • Dec 2, 2024 | nhm.ac.uk | Josh Davis

    A cave in northern Morocco contains dozens of ancient graves. Dating towards the end of the Pleistocene, some 15,000 years ago, the burials at Grotte des Pigeons are providing a wealth of information about the lives and culture of hunter-gather people. One grave in particular has provided astonishing insights into potential cultural behaviours. It appears that a young man was buried carefully in an oval pit alongside a medicinal plant now known as Ephedra.

  • Nov 26, 2024 | nhm.ac.uk | Josh Davis

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