Hominins Moved Into the Neighborhood of the Hobbit Humans Around 1.04 Million Years Ago todayheadline
The Wallacean Islands were a popular place for our ancient ancestors. And as it turns out, our ancient ancestors reached ...
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Some Early Hominins Evolved to Walk Upright While Still Living in Trees todayheadline
Climbing is for the forest, and walking is for the savannah. That’s the basic premise behind one of the biggest ...
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Were Hominins in Europe 6 Million Years Ago? Footprint Find Sparks Debate todayheadline
Footprints that stroll through a patchy area of Grecian beach 6 million years ago has caused researchers to rethink the ...
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A Neanderthal Fingerprint Points to Art, and Possibly Portraiture, Around 43,000 Years Ago todayheadline
Artistic mediums certainly change. While modern humans have paint and paper, ancient humans had ochre and pebbles. However, both work ...
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Ancient Weapons Tell a New Hunting Story for Ancestors of Neanderthal and Early Man todayheadline
Ancient snail shells helped archeologists re-evaluate the age of the oldest known wooden weapons collection: a site in Lower Saxony, ...
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Well-Preserved Austrian Mummy Reveals Unusual Rectal Embalming Technique todayheadline
We typically associate mummies with ancient Egypt — or sometimes cheesy old horror movies. Now a newly described mummy from ...
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Thorin the Neanderthal Was One of the Last of These Ancient Humans todayheadline
Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 ...
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20,000-Year-Old Tools Show How Paleolithic Humans Learned From Each Other todayheadline
Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques ...
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More Like a Movie Than a Portrait — A New DNA Model Redefines Family History todayheadline
With popular genetic testing company 23andMe filing for bankruptcy, what does the future of ancestry DNA look like?A team of ...
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The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Could Answer Profound Cosmic Questions todayheadline
Neutrinos are the most ubiquitous particles — a hundred billion zip through your fingertip each second — yet they have ...
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