6+ hour, 38+ min ago   (946+ words) Scientists have uncovered ancient human remains that could represent a crucial link in our evolutionary history. Fossils, including bones and teeth, dating back 773,000 years, were unearthed in a Moroccan cave, displaying a mosaic of modern and primitive features." The face…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1038+ words) Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have analysed bones found in a Belgian cave where cannibalism was known to have taken place. They revealed the six victims were children…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (908+ words) Humans kissed Neanderthals " and they liked it, a new study shows." Researchers at the"University of Oxford and"Florida"Institute of Technology have found evidence that ancient humans were smooching around 50,000 years ago." Neanderthals (Homo neanderthaliensis) were a close human…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1174+ words) The world's oldest RNA " an essential nucleic acid present in all living cells " has been extracted from the extinct woolly mammoth, a new study reveals." Researchers in Sweden"and Denmark have for the first time managed to successfully isolate and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (842+ words) The curious case of the green mummy has baffled scientists for decades. A teenager, buried in Italy hundreds of years ago, developed a distinctive emerald sheen not usually found on human remains. Now, the secret behind the unusual colouring has…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (812+ words) Move aside, T.Rex " there's a new dinosaur in town! Scientists have confirmed that a skeleton discovered in Montana belongs to a brand new species." Known as Nanotyrannus lancensis, this new dinosaur"was a distant cousin of T.Rex, according to researchers…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1388+ words) It is one arguably one of the most pivotal stages in our history." But what really happened around the time when an asteroid smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago?" Scientists may finally have the answer, after discovering the remains…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (711+ words) It looks like it could have been laid yesterday. But believe it or not, this dinosaur egg, recently unearthed in Argentina, dates back 70 million years. The ancient egg was discovered in Rio Negro in Patagonia and has left experts around…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1503+ words) It was a hug worthy only of the woman who redefined man. Because more than 50 years earlier she had become the first person to document any animal other than humans using a tool, when she observed a chimp digging termites…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (536+ words) By CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC Deep Ocean: Kingdom Of The Coelacanth (BBC2) Next time your bicycle has a flat tyre, find a coelacanth. These "living fossils, dating back 400 million years to before the dawn of the dinosaurs, are an essential part…...