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a New Researchpublished in the journal Geoscience Reviewhelps resolve one of the longest-running debates in paleoanthropology: when did early humans arrive in Europe? Ancient humans. Image…
The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) is a hypothetical common ancestor of all modern cellular life, from single-celled organisms such as bacteria to giant sequoia trees…
A recent study indicates that multiple instances of gene flow occurring between 250,000 and 200,000 years ago impacted the genomes and biology of both modern humans…
The culture that built Stonehenge suffered a mysterious population decline Wirestock/Alamy The European Neolithic culture that produced megaliths like Stonehenge experienced a major decline about 5,400…
A team of paleontologists from Kasetsart University, Mahasarakham University and Sirindhorn Museum have unearthed three fossilized teeth from a previously unknown non-tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur in northeastern…
A newly described trunk tetrapod exceeding 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in length Gaiacia geniae It was probably the largest organism of its kind. Reconstructing your life…
debtFacebook users of a certain age may remember a particularly lonely-looking farm animal that appeared in their feeds during the platform’s heyday. A lonely cow wandered…
IIn 2002, a group of five Italians garnered local attention for their ambitious project. They aimed to develop games for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, becoming the…
Archaeologists have discovered a new human rib specimen in the White Cliff Cave, one of two sites known to have been inhabited by Denisovans. Dating from…
Scientists in South Africa were surprised to find that a termite mound standing in the country’s arid regions is over 30,000 years old, making it the…
Traces of cave paintings depicting pigs and human-like figures from Leang Karampuang, Sulawesi, IndonesiaGriffith University An Indonesian cave painting depicting a pig with a human-like figure…
Reconstruction of Gaiasia geniaeGabriel Rio 280 million years ago, the cold swamps of what is now the Namib Desert were home to giant salamander-like predators that…
Ronaldo, a six-foot-long Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a British school, was thought to be male until he gave birth to 14 babies last month.…
Paleobotanists have described nine new species of the Vitaceae family. Vitaceae It is based on fossil seeds from four tropical palaeoflora sites, dating back 60 to…
circleWhether referred to as manifestos or contracts, the documents released by political parties before elections often lack substance despite their length. Filled with idealistic scenarios, vague…
Ancient ritual sticks discovered in Australia's Clogs CaveGunaikurnai Land and Water Aboriginal Corporation Wooden artefacts found in Australian caves suggest Aboriginal rituals recorded in the 19th…
Archaeologists from the University of Sydney say eyelets were a new innovation used to decorate clothing for social and cultural purposes, and mark a major shift…
The ancient ship and its cargo are estimated to date to the 13th century BC, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered. Canaanite amphorae…
2,000-year-old wine discovered in Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain Juan Manuel Roman/University of Cordoba Chemical analysis has revealed that a reddish liquid discovered in a 2,000-year-old…
About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen first began to accumulate in meaningful levels in Earth's atmosphere, setting the stage for the emergence of complex life.…
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the so-called Sacramento in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.…
A cold, dense cloud in the Milky Way’s interstellar medium is about four to five orders of magnitude denser than its diffuse counterparts, and a team…
Illustration of a protection bubble around the sun (yellow dot) and the earth (blue dot)Harvard Radcliffe Institute Two to three million years ago, the solar system…
The discovery was made possible by ESA’s Gaia spacecraft, which is mapping more than a billion stars across the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, tracking their…
Horse domestication began on the Eurasian steppesLina Shatalova/iStockphoto/Getty Images A genetic study of hundreds of ancient horses suggests that ancient breeders dramatically shortened the horse’s natural…
Geologists have analysed 4-billion-year-old zircon crystals from Jack Hills in Western Australia’s mid-west region to date the emergence of fresh water back just a few hundred…
About 12,440 to 12,550 years ago, hunter-gatherers regularly returned to Chile’s Lake Taguatagua to hunt an ancient elephant relative called Gomphotherium and exploit other local resources,…
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered very old stars in the Milky Way’s halo, a cloud of stars that covers the entire disk…
○On April 21, 1989, Nintendo released a chunky gray gameplay rectangle for Japanese stores. It’s safe to say that no one expected much of it. Inside…
Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon, is the most volcanically active object in the solar system. Joshimer Binas/Alamy Stock Photo Jupiter’s moon Io has been continually modified by…
New archaeological excavations show that the Umm Jirsan lava tubes in Halat Khyber, northwestern Saudi Arabia, have been repeatedly visited by humans from at least the…
An international team of scientists has generated the highest quality reference genome to date for coffee arabica, the world's most popular coffee species (arabica coffee tree).…
Archaeologists from Necmettin Erbakan University have announced the discovery of the world’s oldest known bread, dating from 6600 BC, at the famous Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük…
Tesla experienced its first drop in vehicle deliveries in almost four years, failing to meet Wall Street’s expectations. This indicates that the impact of price reductions…
‘I “I remember rushing home from school just to play Rollercoaster Tycoon,” says Merlin Entertainments, the owner of UK-based theme parks including Olton Towers, Chessington World…
MWhen I was a kid, my parents were somewhat skeptical of video games. When I was a kid, I had a Super Nintendo and his N64,…
Humans have a long history of transporting and trading plants, contributing to the evolution of cultivated plants. The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), whose beans are used…
Canoes are up to 10 meters long and are made by hollowing out trees. Gibaja et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 More than 7,000 years…
A 1,000-year-old human brain unearthed from a churchyard in Ypres, Belgium.The tissue folds, which are still soft and wet, are stained orange with iron oxide.Alexandra L.…
Aboriginal people use fire to manage the landscapePenny Tweedy/Getty Images Analysis of sediment cores taken from ancient lakes shows that Australia's indigenous peoples have been using…