5+ hour, 28+ min ago   (628+ words) When did our ability to communicate advance beyond grunting and gesturing? Clues to the genesis of our linguistic abilities may lie in extraordinary choices by ordinary hominins The question is when language emerged, evolving beyond animal modes of communication such…...

19+ hour, 22+ min ago   (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...

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, 8+ hour ago   (628+ words) A remarkable 560-million-year-old fossil found in a Norwegian sheep field is giving scientists an unprecedented glimpse into early animal life—and revealing surprising clues about Earth’s ancient ecosystems. Scientists have discovered one of the oldest known three-dimensionally preserved fossils in…...

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, 18+ 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,…...

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…...

2+ day, 20+ 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...

3+ day, 43+ min 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…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (508+ words) A prehistoric child whose teeth were long held up as the physical proof that Ice Age modern humans hunted, butchered, and wore Neanderthals as jewelry was not a Neanderthal at all — a new study concludes the remains belong to a…...