‘Ice Age puberty’ unveiled for the primary time as ‘dwarf corpse’ examined

A scientific reconstruction has revealed how an Ice Age teenager who had dwarfism may have looked.

The new research also shows how teenagers who lived during this time 11,000 years ago would have gone through puberty in a similar way to how people today do.

The study, which was shared in the Journal of Human Evolution, looks at how young people who grew up during the Ice Age would have developed.

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Scientists looked for evidence of the stages of puberty in the remains of 13 ancient humans, with each skeleton estimated to have come from children and teens aged 10 to 20.

One of these skeletons was a 16-year-old boy who, scientists believe, had dwarfism, or an early form of the condition.

“By analyzing specific areas of the skeleton, we inferred things like menstruation and someone’s voice breaking,” April Nowell, a study author from the University of Victoria in Canada, said in a statement.

“It can sometimes be difficult for us to connect with the remote past, but we all went through puberty even if we experienced it differently. Our research helps to humanize these teens in a way that simply studying stone tools cannot,” Nowell added.

The news comes after scientists discovered strange spider-like shapes across Mars and looked into their true origin.

The geological features were found along the Northern Hemisphere of Mars through rovers and other satellite technology. The formations look to be etched into the planet’s surface and spread for more than a kilometre.

Spiders were their first thoughts, as the features look like they have long spindly legs growing from a body. They are also often found in clusters and appear to raise the surface of Mars.

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