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The island was once connected to the Australian mainland.
Very little research has been conducted in the area.
Climate change propelled the migration of our ancestors out of Africa and into Eurasia.
Study shows subtle changes in speech accents among Antarctica's few temporary inhabitants.
A new study suggests fermentation -- not fire -- as the catalyst of our more potent brains.
The 3D scans of ancient ape bones reveal new insights into the evolution of bipedalism.
Their faces were lost to the world. Now, science has brought them back.
From making baseball-sized spheres to colonizing rainforests with tool miniaturization, our ancestors did a lot.
Our ancestors left us an interesting legacy.
A butchered hominin fossil suggests our ancestors had a dark past.
Seaweed was popular in Europe long before it became a hit in Asia.
New findings in New Mexico offer the oldest direct evidence of humans in the Americas.
Their purpose still remains a mystery
Early humans endured a severe population bottleneck that shaped our species, according to new genomic findings.
Beyond his physical characteristics, this refined genome sequencing reveals important insight into prehistoric human migrations in Europe.
AI may look all set to replace human artists, engineers, writers, and coders, but preachers are probably safe.
It protected them from the sun’s harmful rays.
Skeleton discovered in a tomb had been wrongly identified as a man.
New evidence challenges traditional gender roles in hunter-gatherer societies.
There's still much we don't know about the timeline of humans.
They lived around the time the first humans started to appear in Africa.
A 15th-century document traces the roots of the famous British humor.
They found a bottle that had been preserved for over 2,000 years.
They used a technique which laser samples enamel and makes isotope measurements
We are starting to better understand exactly what makes us human
There are surprising similarities to the tools made by humans.
Famed as fierce warriors and skilled seafarers, Vikings developed their very own special fashion too. Anthropologists studying Viking skeletons have revealed that many of them filed and probably painted their teeth — and if that’s not impressive enough, they ironed their clothes with hot rocks, traveled with their spouses, and had complex social interactions. Vikings […]
We're starting to find more traces of Denisovan-human interbreeding.
This 11,000 year-old scene is quite the artistic roller coaster.
This challenges the idea that Vikings were stealing animals in England
Mixing drones, magnetometers, and "surgical" digging, archaeologists are looking at the past in new ways.
Sailing isn't a skill unique to Homo sapiens -- extinct hominids may have also done it.
Neanderthals may have opened up forests using fire and cutting tools much earlier than modern humans have.
The pandemic has messed up many things including the academic and social growth of school children.
Early humans liked their fish well done.
Ancient peoples seem to have mingled much more than thought possible.
Got to admit, it caught us a bit by surprise.
Any engineer today would be proud of them.
The urban settlement didn’t have a city center or a surrounding defensive wall, but it had an interesting peculiarity.
The two species may have imitated each other’s stone tools and jewelry.
That's quite a trip to make!
Scientists originally thought she was male, but a fresh look has revealed some surprises.
What was living like for the Mayans?
The tooth is almost two million years old.
The remarkable Stone Age operation was made on a child who survived and years later grew into adulthood.
There is strong evidence the dinosaurs endured a double-asteroid whammy.
Even so, our mouths are much efficient at chewing than earlier ancestors, helping us absorb more calories.
An archaeologist explains new evidence from stone tools that shows strong and wide social connections among our ancestors who lived 65,000 years ago in Southern Africa.
They are believed to have been ancestors of the Neanderthals, living in Britain up to 620,000 years ago.
There are many theories behind the finding, from a bizarre tragedy to the frogs being attracted to the area
