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New study puts hominins in Israel 1.9 million years ago, rewriting earliest human migration
5+ hour ago (819+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. Ancient humans already lived in the area of modern-day Israel at least 1.9 million years ago, a new study suggests, pushing back the exodus out of Africa to hundreds of…...
New Israeli fossil research shows some winged dinosaurs lost ability to fly
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (483+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 802 A new study of rare 160-million-year-old dinosaur fossils has opened a fresh window onto the evolution of flight in dinosaurs and birds By examining fossilized feather molting patterns, Yosef Kiat, a researcher at Tel Aviv University's…...
Homo Sapiens procreated with Neanderthals 100,000 years earlier than previously thought
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (564+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 684 Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter A groundbreaking study of a child's skull found in a northern Israeli cave has found that the world's first incidence of sex between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals…...