Tag Archive for 'Sri Lanka'

The rose-veiled fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa), underwater photograph from Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives, 60 m. Image credit: Luiz Rocha.

New Species of Fairy Wrasse Discovered

Mar 11, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of the fish genus Cirrhilabrus living in the waters off Maldives and Sri Lanka. The rose-veiled...

Bone projectile points (A to H) and scrapers (I to K) from Fa-Hien Lena. Image credit: Langley et al, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3831.

48,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Unearthed in Sri Lanka

Jun 15, 2020 by News Staff

Archaeologists have found over a hundred bone arrow points at the Pleistocene cave site of Fa-Hien Lena in Sri Lanka. The artifacts were used to hunt tree-dwelling...

Cores from Phase D (48,000-34,000 years ago) and Phase C (13,000-12,000 years ago) of Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka: bipolar core (4, 5, 6), bipolar orthogonal core (1, 2, 7, 8), unidirectional abrupt core (3). Image credit: Wedage et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222606.

45,000-Year-Old Tiny Stone Tools Found in Sri Lanka

Oct 4, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has found a collection of microliths — small, retouched, often-backed stone tools — at the cave site...

WT1190F observed on October 9, 2015, with the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Image credit: B. Bolin / R. Jedicke / M. Micheli.

WT1190F: Mystery Space Object is Likely to Crash into Indian Ocean in November

Oct 29, 2015 by News Staff

A reentry of a suspected piece of space junk from a very high orbit on November 13, 2015, offers a great opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge...

Mountain forest in Sri Lanka. Image credit: Faslan / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Early Foragers Thrived on ‘Rainforest Diet’ 20,000 Years Ago

Mar 13, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Patrick Roberts of the University of Oxford, UK, early human foragers relied primarily on rainforest resources from at...

This image shows a large and very complex, thick-walled, carbon-rich microfossil that the team has identified as a hystrichosphere. Scale bar - 100 μm (Jamie Wallis et al)

Alien Algae? Scientists Say They Have Found Microfossils in Meteorite

Mar 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In a controversial paper published in the March issue of the Journal of Cosmology, scientists from Cardiff University with colleagues from Sri Lanka and...