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, 12+ hour ago   (473+ words) In China, five Denisovan remains have been confirmed on the basis of ancient proteins, including the first known fragment of their radius. The discovery suggests that Denisovans lived in south-western China approximately 167,000–134,000 years ago. In the Bianfu Cave in the…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (54+ words) K.J. Genualdo • about 3 hours ago Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:55PM EDT Resolution: (1602px x 2048px) File size: 480 KB 11 views (11 from today) extinction, paleo art, art...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (563+ words) The tooth shapes were then cross-referenced against known Denisovan specimens from Siberia, Tibet, and Laos, and matched closely. "As soon as he saw a picture of the tooth, 'I immediately assumed that they were probably Denisovan,'" said Clément Zanolli, a…...

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   (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…...