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Jan 19, 2024 - A century ago, it wasn’t obvious where humans got their start. But decades of fossil discoveries, reinforced by genetic studies, have pointed to Africa as...

New research finds the earliest evidence of manual dexterity, a feature defining modern human evolution, in thumbs bones corresponding to 2 million years ago.

Jul 7, 2025 - The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Press release - M. Schall Verlag - Immortality through technology: An ancient human dream about to become reality - published on openPR.com

A new study proposes that baboon grunts and barks might have more in common with human speech than most people believe. Researchers have noted that these...

In 2009, scientists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor within layers of million-year-old sediment in the Afar Rift in Ethiopia. The...

Some snails in Ireland and the Pyrenees are genetically almost identical, perhaps because they were carried across the Atlantic during an 8000-year-old human...

In a trio of new studies, researchers argue a new ancient human, Homo longi, is an Asian contemporary of Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens.

The Greek historian Herodotus claimed that the Scythians used human skin to make leather quivers, and new archaeological evidence confirms this.

Stonehenge has flummoxed archeologists, poets, historians, educators, and religious leaders for centuries.The mysterious ring of stones is clearly far more...

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus and the oldest specimens of Homo...

It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside Africa 47,000-65,000 years ago.

On November 1, 1755--All Saints' Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon.

An evolutionary missing link offers valuable insight into the origins of the human hand.

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green Sahara" 7,000 years ago.

From tribal hunts to Stonehenge and into the modern day, the peer instinct helps humans coordinate their efforts and learning.

Oct 16, 2024

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the complexities of our past by meeting the fascinating human species we once shared the planet with

The sequence domains underlying long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) activities, including their characteristic nuclear enrichment, remain largely unknown. It has been...

A unique Stone Age skull found in Kenya is reshaping what scientists know about the diversity of early humanity.

Explore ancient artz from cave paintings to temples. Learn about civilizations, symbolism, techniques, and its impact on modern creativity and culture.

An interdisciplinary research platform reveals that the transcriptional identity of metazoan male germ cells is built around a small network of deeply...

Archaeologists say they may have found earliest evidence yet for existence of modern man after discovering 4,000-year-old teeth in Qassem cave

The coelacanth, a mysterious fish once thought to be extinct, once sported a lung before it began breathing exclusively with its gills.