Denisova man

I suppose it's not unreasonable to have to wait until now to hear about a discovery made in 2008 when we're talking about a tiny piece of bone from the finger of a previously unknown type of early human that had been lying in a cave in Denisova in Siberia. The report I read was in Focus under the heading Wissenschaftler entdecken bislang unbekannte Menschenform  Because it is so cold in Siberia the DNA had been preserved and scientists were able to compare it with DNA from homo sapiens sapiens and homo sapiens neandertalis

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Warum müssen die Wissenschaftler das Textbuch korrigieren?
Was ist wie ein Kühlschrank?
Wer waren überrascht von der Entdeckung?

Further reports on this theme:
Neue Menschenform entdeckt
Forscher entdecken neue Menschenform

Ice on the moon

Am Nordpol des Mondes gibt es tonnenweise Wassereis. Das haben Astronomen mit einem Radarinstrument an Bord der indischen Mondsonde "Chandrayaan-1" beobachtet.

To read the full report from Tagesschau.de about the discovery of frozen water on the moon go to NASA entdeckt Eis auch am Nordpol vom Mond