1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (41+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to b......

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (104+ words) The fossil record suggested modern humans simply wiped out their evolutionary cousins, but genetic evidence now reveals a messier, more intimate history of coexistence and interbreeding....

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (269+ words) (KTLA) – What looked like a strange rock in a California creek turned out to be something much older and rarer. A scientist working in San Mateo County discovered an intact mastodon tooth during a field survey at a Midpeninsula Regional…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (48+ words) oceanexplorer.noaa.gov LIVE VIDEO: The 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration expedition is underway. Watch live dives to explore deep-sea habitats of American Samoa. NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration Download largest version (jpg, 590.9 KB) Stay connected to…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1035+ words) Alongside the seven Denisovan fossils, the researchers uncovered tools made of bone and stone, as well as fossilized pollen and animal remains. Published Sep 10, 2026 10:58 AM EDT | Updated Sep 10, 2026 10:58 AM EDT (CNN) — Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed…...

2+ day, 14+ 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…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (319+ words) We take thousands of steps each day and we never think about the evolutionary and cultural advantage it represents. Humans naturally land with a heel-strike and the metabolic energy savings were as much as 41 percent, which made traveling farther possible,…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (695+ words) Amid an oppressive stretch of extreme heat and Florida-esque humidity that has been punishing much of California, consider, for a moment, the Ice Age. For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (750+ words) Home → Science → Anthropology New fossils, tools and butchered bones put an elusive human lineage into everyday life. The fossil is only about 4.5 centimeters long, a broken piece of the radius near the elbow. But for scientists trying to reconstruct the…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (618+ words) A quarry cleanup in southwest China has turned up the first Denisovan arm bone ever found — along with hunting tools and animal remains that finally let researchers picture how this elusive human relative actually lived, rather than just what its…...