Cool/Exciting/Interesting things (probably videos)
Toss up between this thread and the music thread. I think it’s as much visually interesting as is aurally amazing.
This really warmed my little heart.
I’m not gonna post the whole thing, click on the gif to see it all
A wonderful rendering of the events of Mad Max: Fury Road in the style of an ancient Egyptian painting.
A new species of genus Homo
There’s a new (extinct) hominid on the block (in a cave system in Africa): Homo naledi.
Basically, Homo naledi had humanlike hands, legs, and feet, but tiny little australopithecine skulls, i.e., brains.
And, there are a lot of them, fossil-wise: “Representing at least 15 individuals with most skeletal elements repeated multiple times, this is the largest assemblage of a single species of hominins yet discovered in Africa.”
They don’t yet know exactly how long ago they lived: maybe two million years ago, when the Homo genus emerged, or as late as a hundred thousand years ago, when it contracted to, well,
Vox made a video.
The most interesting thing is that scientists believe it is a burial ground.