This image shows the skull bones of the man buried in Riņņukalns, Latvia, around 5,000 years ago. Credit: Dominik Göldner, BGAEU, Berlin The oldest strain…
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New Fossil Discovery of a Distinct, Ancient Human Species Points to Complicated Evolutionary Process
Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Analysis of recently discovered fossils found in Israel suggests that interactions between different human species…
Homalictus fijiensis, a common bee in the lowlands of Fiji. Credit: James Dorey, Flinders University Early land clearance helped Fijian pollinators. After centuries of human…
Digital reconstruction of the new Mesozoic bird fossil skeleton (scale bar: 10 mm). Credit: Min Wang Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology…
[embedded content] This may well be the most interesting story about pillows and bedding you will ever read. The burial field in Valsgärde outside Uppsala…
Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a fungus parasitizing an ant, and the fossil also represents a new fungal genus…
This is an artistic depiction of the tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus with its young. Credit: James Havens In the 1950s, researchers made the first unexpected discoveries of…
Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Dramatic Discovery in Israeli Excavation The discovery of a new Homo group in this region,…
Illustration showing a pair of adult tyrannosaurs and their young living in the Arctic during the Cretaceous Period. Credit: James Havens Images of dinosaurs as…
Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry. An underwater archaeologist from The University of Texas…
Set of photographs of stone lamp experiment. Credit: Medina-Alcaide et al, 2021, PLOS ONE A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches,…
The period preceding the emergence of behaviorally modern humans was characterized by dramatic climatic and environmental variability – it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds…
Galería de las Estatuas cave site in northern Spain. Credit: Javier Trueba – Madrid Scientific Films Mitochondrial DNA of archaic humans has been retrieved from…
Ecological reconstruction of giant rhinos and their accompanying fauna in the Linxia Basin during the Oligocene. Credit: Yu Chen The giant rhino, Paraceratherium, is considered the…
Australotitan cooperensis, “Southern Titan of the Cooper.” Credit: Vlad Konstantinov, Scott Hocknull ©Eromanga Natural History Museum What’s as long a basketball court, taller than a…
The raucous calls of tree hyraxes — small, herbivorous mammals — reverberate through the night in the forests of West and Central Africa, but their…
Research from the University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean,…
Australotitan cooperensis, “Southern Titan of the Cooper.” Credit: Vlad Konstantinov, Scott Hocknull ©Eromanga Natural History Museum It is time to meet Australotitan cooperensis, a new species…
Indentation of several goat hooves in a brick from the archaeological site of Ganj Dareh. Credit: The ‘Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project’ New research…
Andrew Somerville made an unexpected discovery while studying the origins of agriculture. Credit: Christopher Gannon, Iowa State University An unexpected discovery by an Iowa State…