N-gated Hacker News10h ago
🧊🔬 Wow, #science just discovered that #Ötzi the #Iceman has a cousin 5,000 years removed. 📜 Because apparently, the only thing harder to kill than a cockroach is a lineage from the Stone Age. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 What’s next, a family reunion with the Pharaohs?
https://blog.familytreedna.com/otzi-the-iceman-dna/ #FamilyHistory #Archaeology #AncientDNA #StoneAge #HackerNews #ngated
Ötzi the Iceman’s DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5,000 Years Later

For years, experts believed Ötzi the Iceman’s mitochondrial DNA lineage had vanished. New genetic analysis reveals it still survives today.

FamilyTreeDNA Blog
Hacker News10h ago

Ötzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later

https://blog.familytreedna.com/otzi-the-iceman-dna/

#HackerNews #Ötzi #Iceman #DNA #LivingRelative #Genetics

Ötzi the Iceman’s DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5,000 Years Later

For years, experts believed Ötzi the Iceman’s mitochondrial DNA lineage had vanished. New genetic analysis reveals it still survives today.

FamilyTreeDNA Blog
AustinGorton2d ago

085 - X-Factor #66 - 3/26/1991

Portacio's brief X-Factor uniforms are deeply underrated.

Cover by Whilce Portacio. Interiors by Jim Lee, Chris Claremont & Portacio.

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman

AustinGortonMar 21

080 - X-Men #76 - 3/21/1972

Reprinting X-Men #28, Banshee's first appearance.

Can't pass up an opportunity to feature Gil Kane Nose!

Cover by Gil Kane. Interiors by Roy Thomas & Werner Roth.

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #UncannyXMen #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman

AustinGortonMar 20

079 - What If? (vol. 2) #13 - 3/20/1990

Early Jim Lee cover!

Cover by Jim Lee. Interiors by Kurt Busiek & Vince Mielcarek.

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #WhatIf #Cyclops #Iceman #Quicksilver #JimLee

AustinGortonMar 18

077 - X-Factor #5 - 3/17/1986

Our first shadowy glimpse of the leader of the Alliance of Evil, who is definitely not the Owl!

Cover by Ron Frenz. Interiors by Bob Layton & Jackson Guice

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman

AustinGortonMar 17

075 - Extraordinary X-Men #8 - 3/16/2016

Homaging the cover to X-Factor #6, Apocalypse's first full appearance (Jean & Iceman are in their OG positions)

Cover by Humberto Ramos. Interiors by Jeff Lemire & Ramos.

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #ExtraordinaryXMen #JeanGrey #Iceman

AustinGortonMar 12

071 - X-Men #56 - 3/12/1969

Take THAT, logo! Another all-timer.

Cover by Neal Adams. Interiors by Roy Thomas & Adams.

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #UncannyXMen #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman

AustinGortonMar 11

069 - Marvel Age #39 - 3/11/1986

On sale the same month as X-Factor #5, this is celebrating a version of the book that won't exist the following month.

Cover by Bob Layton. Interiors by various.

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #MarvelAge #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman

AustinGortonMar 7

064 - All New X-Men #8 - 3/6/2013

The time-traveling O5 meet the Avengers & Jean starts wiping minds!

Cover by Stuart Immonen. Interiors by Brian Michael Bendis & Immonen.

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #AllNewXMen #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Beast #Angel #Iceman