Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age

Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal | Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals | Are we in a 6th mass extinction? Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( April 15, 2024 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [X](  [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal]( (Lisa Maree Williams/Bloomberg via Getty Images) [Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal]( The landscape features in the dreamtime stories of Australia's Indigenous people. [Read More]( [] History & Archaeology [] [Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals]( (ilbusca via Getty Images) [Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals]( A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age. [Read More]( [] Planet Earth [] [Are we in a 6th mass extinction?]( (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images) [Are we in a 6th mass extinction?]( If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period. [Read More]( [] Space [] [There's a baby star 'sneezing' in the constellation Taurus and it could solve a longstanding cosmic mystery]( (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) [There's a baby star 'sneezing' in the constellation Taurus and it could solve a longstanding cosmic mystery]( In a rare observation, scientists found a baby star "sneezing" gas, dust and magnetic energy out of its disk. This behavior could help solve a longstanding mystery about how stars form without tearing themselves apart. [Read More]( [] Health [] [Exercise may reverse sign of aging by 'flushing' fat from muscle]( (FG Trade via Getty Images) [Exercise may reverse sign of aging by 'flushing' fat from muscle]( Researchers say they've identified a kind of fat that plays a major role in aging and can be controlled with short-term exercise. [Read More]( [] Technology [] ['Jailbreaking' AI services like ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus is much easier than you think]( (Koron via Getty Images) ['Jailbreaking' AI services like ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus is much easier than you think]( AI researchers found they could dupe an AI chatbot into giving a potentially dangerous response to a question by feeding it a huge amount of data it learned from queries made mid-conversation. [Read More]( [] Daily Quiz [] What caused a large extinction in the midst of the expansion of life during the Cambrian period? (Learn the answer [here](). [Vote]( [Shifting tectonic plates.]( [Vote]( [An asteroid impact.]( [Vote]( [Rising sea levels.]( [Vote]( [Rising carbon levels in the atmosphere.](   [Sign Up]( | [Update Profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Cookies Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions]( CONTACT US: [FEEDBACK](mailto:livescience@smartbrief.com) | [ADVERTISE]( [Future]( Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036