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Stunned scientist accidentally discovers massive ancient tooth - and it belongs to beast from 2.5 million years ago
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (19+ words) The Sun...
Stone Age families relied on snakes and lizards for food
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (1182+ words) Snakes and lizards made up a surprising share of meals at a Natufian settlement, where the same butchering method persisted for millennia. The familiar picture of the Stone Age diet centers on big animals: a gazelle on a spit, a…...
Ancient 'Supervolcano' Hidden Beneath England May Be Linked to a Massive Ordovician Eruption
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (380+ words) An ancient supervolcano buried beneath eastern England erupted about 454.4 million years ago, spreading ash across northern Europe. Researchers connected rock samples from Norfolk and Lincolnshire to the Kinnekulle tephra, a major ash layer found across Scandinavia and the Baltic. The…...
The Image of Neanderthals as a Species Exclusively Adapted to the Cold Is False: This Was What Led Them to Extinction
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1163+ words) A global study suggests that climate change was not the main cause of Neanderthal extinction and points to competition with Homo sapiens as the determining factor. An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the…...
These Neanderthal Tools Looked So Ordinary Archaeologists Almost Missed Them
2+ week, 2+ day ago (502+ words) Thousands of overlooked bone scraps are rewriting Neanderthal research...
Australopithecus is not a single branch of the human family tree, a point its own field has long recognised, so why does a new paper argue one fix is to fold it, Paranthropus and Kenyanthropus into an expanded genus Homo reaching back four to five million years?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (463+ words) The proposal comes from a single-author synthesis with no new fossil in it, and its author writes that it will likely not prove widely acceptable. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Christy Suriadi Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit Most…...
The Woolly Mammoth’s Comeback Is Taking Longer Than Expected
2+ week, 5+ day ago (425+ words) An artist's rendering of an Ice Age mammoth No more. In a recent conversation with TIME, Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm concedes that those goal posts have moved more than a little. “We are thinking it will be in…...
Paleovirology: In-Depth Description
2+ week, 6+ day ago (211+ words) Scientific Frontline Sunday, August 23, 2026 - Classification: Interdisciplinary Field (bridges virology, evolutionary biology, genomics, and bioinformatics) The Branches of Paleovirology - Evolutionary Virology: Focuses on the origins, phylogenetic relationships, and long-term mutation rates of viral lineages over geological timescales, tracing how ancient viruses…...
Did rocks provide life’s first scaffolds? | Varsity
2+ week, 6+ day ago (112+ words) James Yang delves into the rocky origins of life and the clues they leave behind Sunday August 23 2026, 6:01pm “Inorganic minerals could have played a role in assembling life’s first chemical building blocks” Many chemical reactions essential to life are possible in…...
Drought Just Exposed a 7-Ton Mammoth Buried on This Bulgarian Riverbank for Hundreds of Thousands of Years
3+ week, 2+ day ago (242+ words) A Mammoth has been waiting hundreds of thousands of years for someone to find it. Now that a Bulgarian riverbank has finally given it up, researchers are left with more questions than answers about how it got there. Record-low water…...