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Cave fossils in China reveal lives of mysterious human relatives
15+ hour, 5+ min ago (912+ words) Estimated read time: 7-8 minutes Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way of life. The new haul — which includes four teeth,…...
Human DNA hides two ghost ancestors — one from a species 1.8 million years old
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (476+ words) Every modern human carries roughly 1.5% of their genome from two populations of hominins that left no known fossils, have no formally assigned species name, and have never had their ancient DNA sequenced. Both populations mated with our ancestors at different…...
Ancient DNA Reveals The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah at All
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...
Cattle were left behind in Hong Kong centuries ago; a 2026 genome study found their DNA holds a record of how livestock adapted to island life
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (668+ words) Cattle were left behind in Hong Kong centuries ago; a 2026 genome study found their DNA holds a record of The Times of India...
Nearly Destroyed DNA Reveals Two Extinct Giant Tortoise Lineages
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (119+ words) Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises....
Ancient DNA Unveils 1,000 Years at Crawford Lake
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (928+ words) An international team of scientists featuring faculty at Binghamton University has recreated a 1,000-year timeline documenting the ecological changes and human impact to the area surrounding Crawford Lake, the famed location of the proposed Anthropocene. By analyzing sedimentary ancient DNA…...
2026: 190,000-year-old cave reveals how ancient human species lived and adapted
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (378+ words) UOW researcher’s dating work helps to establish the timeline behind one of the longest records of Denisovan occupation An ancient cave in southwestern China has revealed new evidence about how Denisovans — an ancient human relative — lived, survived and adapted over…...
Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (418+ words) Archaeologists discovered two teeth and three bone fragments from Denisovans in a cave in China. | Credit: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China Archaeologists excavating in southwestern China have discovered a cave that was used by Denisovans for more…...
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: 100 Years of the Society for Mammalogy: from field observation to genome analysis
4+ day, 23+ min ago (273+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:02 Over the past 100 years, mammalogy has undergone a fundamental transformation: what was once a predominantly descriptive discipline has evolved into a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary field of research, the findings…...
BHU partners with Australian centre for human origins research
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (147+ words) Asianet Newsable To address the long-standing imbalances in global research on human origins, an international centre led by Australia’s Griffith University has set out to place South Asia at the heart of the narrative. Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is a…...