Neanderthals thought like we do
As early as 64,000 years ago Iberian Neanderthals created cave paintings
At least 70,000 years ago Homo sapiens used perforated marine shells and color pigments.
From...
Germany was covered by glaciers 450,000 years ago
New chronological data for the Middle Pleistocene glacial cycles push back the first glaciation and early human appearance in central Germany by about 100.000...
Extreme heat could cause animals to shrink (again)
More than 50 million years ago, when Earth experienced a series of extreme global warming events, early mammals responded by shrinking in size.
While this...
Neanderthals didn’t give us red hair but they certainly changed the way we sleep
Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins.
It’s difficult to...
Ancient DNA results end 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy mystery
Using 'next generation' DNA sequencing scientists have found that the famous 'Two Brothers' mummies of the Manchester Museum have different fathers so are, in...
Ancient Easter Island inhabitants had early contact with Native Americans?
Maybe not.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) has long been a source of intrigue and mystery.
How did such a small community of people build so...
Tyrannosaurus Rex bone proves Jurassic Park will never exist
Paleontologists at the University of Manchester have definitively proven there will never be a Jurassic Park after re-analyzing collagen from a Tyrannosaurus rex bone discovered more...
Mystery solved: 6-inch skeleton isn’t an alien after all
New research stamps out any remaining questions about a tiny, mysterious skeleton’s home planet—it’s without a doubt human.
And, more than that, the analysis answers...
Fossil of ancient spider attack only one of its type ever discovered
Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web – a...
Healthy diet? That depends on your genes
A recently published Cornell University study describes how shifts in the diets of Europeans after the introduction of farming 10,000 years ago led to...