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July 21, 2024
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July 19, 2024 A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The discovery, based on four remarkably well-preserved specimens found curled together in a ...
July 16, 2024 Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their ...
July 17, 2024 Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a new ...
July 11, 2024 Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow between the hominin groups over the past quarter-million ...
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July 10, 2024 Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse. Contrary to previous beliefs, the plague may have diminished Europe's populations long before the ...
July 12, 2024 Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already ...
July 11, 2024 A recent study provides new insights into ancient cultures in Canada's Arctic, focusing on Paleo-Inuit and Thule-Inuit peoples over thousands of years. Researchers detected human presence and ...
July 11, 2024 An international research team has assembled the genome and 3D chromosomal structures of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth -- the first time such a ...
July 8, 2024 A study of ancient dingo DNA revealed that the distribution of modern dingoes across Australia, including those on K'gari (formerly Fraser Island), ...
July 10, 2024 A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early farming but where scant ...
July 3, 2024 Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many ...
July 1, 2024 Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years. This conclusion comes from ...
June 28, 2024 A team of researchers suggest that eyed needles were a new technological innovation used to adorn clothing for social and cultural purposes, marking the major shift from clothes as protection to ...
June 14, 2024 Researchers share evidence that people's attitudes are deeply woven into language and culture across the globe and ...
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June 27, 2024 Why did multicellularity arise? Solving that mystery may help pinpoint life on other planets and explain the vast diversity and complexity seen on Earth today, from sea sponges to redwoods to human ...
June 26, 2024 A new study documents the first case of Down syndrome in Neanderthals and reveals that they were capable of providing altruistic care and support for a vulnerable member of their social ...
June 24, 2024 The origins of hierarchical society in Samoa and wider Polynesia have likely been uncovered by a new study led by ...
June 20, 2024 For centuries, scientists thought they knew where the griffin legend came from. A new study takes a closer look at the data and folklore's influence on ...
June 20, 2024 A new dinosaur has been identified and named. The dinosaur's name, Lokiceratops rangiformis, translates roughly to 'Loki's horned face that looks like a ...
June 17, 2024 Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...
June 17, 2024 A study on the remains of the Chaves and Puyascada caves, both located in the province of Huesca, Spain, yields the first direct proof of the consumption and processing of dairy products in the ...
June 17, 2024 An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere -- a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand's South Island. 246 million ...
June 12, 2024 Thousands of years ago, people in ancient Syria likely ate mostly grains, grapes, olives and a small amount of dairy and meat -- similar to today's 'Mediterranean diet,' according to a ...
June 12, 2024 Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over the past 5,500 years, identifying trade, warfare, and colonialism as major catalysts for its ...
June 12, 2024 Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichen Itz was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual life ...
June 11, 2024 An international scientific team has redefined our understanding of archaea, a microbial ancestor to humans from two billion years ago, by showing how they use hydrogen gas. The findings explain how ...
June 11, 2024 Variants in the CARD9 gene increase susceptibility to severe fungal infections. However, individuals in different parts of the world tend to carry specific CARD9 variants, making it complex to track ...
June 7, 2024 Ancient apes in Germany co-existed by partitioning resources in their environment, according to a new ...
June 6, 2024 Surprisingly, the origins of financial discounting began with 17th-century English ...
June 5, 2024 Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The discovery sheds new light on a conundrum that has stumped zoologists and paleontologists for ...
June 3, 2024 Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years and how changes in its geography could have helped shape the fortunes of ancient Egyptian civilization. Research ...
June 3, 2024 The Celtic culture of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Western and Central Europe has left numerous traces to this day, not least in the form of enormous burial mounds and spectacular archaeological ...
May 28, 2024 Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light into an unknown ...
May 22, 2024 The discovery of thousands of stone artefacts and animal bones in a deep cave in Timor Island has led archaeologists to reassess the route that early humans took to reach Australia. Researchers dated ...
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- New Study Finds Dinosaur Fossils Did Not Inspire the Mythological Griffin
- Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-Like Horns
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Origins of Cumulative Culture in Human Evolution
- Direct Evidence Found for Dairy Consumption in the Pyrenees in the Earliest Stages of the Neolithic
- Ancient Polar Sea Reptile Fossil Is Oldest Ever Found in Southern Hemisphere
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- Ancient Syrian Diets Resembled the Modern 'Mediterranean Diet'
- Origin and Spread of Malaria
- Ritual Sacrifice at Chichén Itzá
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Scientists Unlock Secrets of How Archaea, the Third Domain of Life, Makes Energy
- Shedding Light on the Origin of a Genetic Variant Underlying Fungal Infections
Friday, June 7, 2024
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Monday, June 3, 2024
- Crucial Shift in River Nile's Evolution During Ancient Egypt Discovered
- Kinship and Ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
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- Legacy of Indigenous Stewardship of Camas Dates Back More Than 3,500 Years
- What Pottery Reveals About Prehistoric Central European Culinary Traditions
Monday, May 20, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Pagan-Christian Trade Networks Supplied Horses from Overseas for the Last Horse Sacrifices in Europe
- Early Arrival and Expansion of Palaeolithic People on Cyprus
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- 75,000-Year-Old Female Neanderthal from Cave Where Species Buried Their Dead
- Feathers, Cognition and Global Consumerism in Colonial Amazonia
- Revised Dating of the Liujiang Skeleton Renews Understanding of Human Occupation of China
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Scientists Show Ancient Village Adapted to Drought, Rising Seas
- How Evolving Landscapes Impacted First Peoples' Early Migration Patterns Into Australia
Monday, April 29, 2024
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- First Evidence of Human Occupation in Lava Tube Cave in Saudi Arabia
- Genetic Variant Identified That Shaped the Human Skull Base
- Interspecies Competition Led to Even More Forms of Ancient Human -- Defying Evolutionary Trends in Vertebrates
Monday, April 15, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Pacific Cities Much Older Than Previously Thought
- The Hidden Role of the Milky Way in Ancient Egyptian Mythology
- The Evolving Attitudes of Gen X Toward Evolution
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Birdfeeders Are Designed to Keep Unwanted Guests Away
- Humans Can Increase Biodiversity, Archaeological Study Shows
Monday, April 8, 2024
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Last Chance to Record Archaic Greek Language 'heading for Extinction'
- When Did the Chicken Cross the Road? New Evidence from Central Asia
Monday, April 1, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Ancient DNA Reveals the Appearance of a 6th Century Chinese Emperor
- DNA Study IDs Descendants of George Washington from Unmarked Remains, Findings to Aid Service Member IDs Going Back to World War II
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Uncovering the Mystery of Dorset's Cerne Giant
- Persian Plateau Unveiled as Crucial Hub for Early Human Migration out of Africa
- New Archive of Ancient Human Brains Challenges Misconceptions of Soft Tissue Preservation
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Toba Supereruption Unveils New Insights Into Early Human Migration
- Across Oceans and Millennia: Decoding the Origin and History of the Bottle Gourd
Monday, March 4, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Climate Change Threatens Thousands of Archaeological Sites in Coastal Georgia
- Experiment Captures Why Pottery Forms Are Culturally Distinct
- Plant Seed and Fruit Analysis from the Biblical Home of Goliath Sheds Unprecedented Light on Philistine Ritual Practices
Thursday, February 22, 2024
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- A Lighthouse in the Gobi Desert
- Anthropologists' Research Unveils Early Stone Plaza in the Andes
- Vittrup Man Crossed Over from Forager to Farmer Before Being Sacrificed in Denmark
- Some Pre-Roman Humans Were Buried With Dogs, Horses and Other Animals
- Did Eurasia's Dominant East-West Axis 'turn the Fortunes of History'?
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
- New Research Challenges Hunter-Gatherer Narrative
- DNA from Preserved Feces Reveals Ancient Japanese Gut Environment
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
- A Window Into Plant Evolution: The Unusual Genetic Journey of Lycophytes
- Despite Intensive Scientific Analyses, This Centaur Head Remains a Mystery
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- The First Assessment of Toxic Heavy Metal Pollution in the Southern Hemisphere Over the Last 2,000 Years
- Ancient Cities Provide Key Datasets for Urban Planning, Policy and Predictions in the Anthropocene
- Prehistoric Person With Turner Syndrome Identified from Ancient DNA
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
- Discovery of Immense Fortifications Dating Back 4,000 Years in North-Western Arabia
- Study on Lamprey Embryos Sheds Light on the Evolutionary Origin of Vertebrate Head
- The Extinction of the Giant Ape: Long-Standing Mystery Solved
- New Research Sheds Light on an Old Fossil Solving an Evolutionary Mystery
Friday, January 5, 2024
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- First High Mountain Settlers at the Start of the Neolithic Already Engaged in Other Livestock Activities Apart from Transhumance
- Rise of Archery in Andes Mountains Dated to 5,000 Years Ago -- Earlier Than Previous Research