A dangerous "paleo diet" may have caused a terrible death #shorts #science #humanevolution @eons

PBS Eons | A dangerous "paleo diet" may have caused a terrible death #shorts #science #humanevolution @eons | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 1 hour ago
The skeleton of a Homo erectus revealed something pretty interesting about ancient paleo diets.

Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios

References:
Walker, A., Zimmerman, M. R. & Leakey. R. E. F. (1982). A possible case of hypervitaminosis A in Homo erectus. Nature 296, 248-250.

When did our ancestors start cooking? #pbseons #evolution #science

The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering

This ankylosaur was the size of a cat! #shorts

Barnacles were Charles Darwin’s nemesis.

These animals were fossilized mid-mating #science #nature #fossils

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not

How did humans become (mostly) right-handed?

The London underground has its own type of mosquito #science #evolution #pbseons

Why are a bunch of dire wolf fossils useful? #science #direwolves

Are these fossils leaves, turtles, or Pokemon?

Chili peppers may be MUCH older than we thought