AST reports that the body of a Platinum man has been turned over to the State Medical Examiner’s office for autopsy after a violent incident in Platinum on Monday. Troopers received a call that the victim, 59-year-old Vincent Beaver was found in his home on Monday. Troopers responded to the location and opened an investigation […]
First African evidence to support hypothesis of an asteroid impact that contributed to the extinction of large animals 12 800 years ago. Image: Map showing simular platuinum spikes throughout the globe. Credit: Francis Thackeray | Wit University A team of scientists from South Africa has discovered evidence partially supporting a hypothesis that Earth was struck […]
No one knows for certain why the Clovis people and iconic beasts — mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger — living some 12,800 years ago suddenly disappeared. However, a discovery of widespread platinum at archaeological sites across the U.S. by three University of South Carolina archaeologists has provided an important clue in solving this enduring mystery. The research […]