Tag: archaeology, biology, Evolution, fossils
Is it time to change the way we talk about human evolution?
A fossilized skull discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s should be considered an entirely new species of human, scientists proposed this week...
Ancient humans might have bred one of the scariest birds on the planet
Whether you’ve been chased by a goose or witnessed an ostrich run at top speed, you know birds can sometimes be terrifying. At the top of...
These footprints could push back human history in the Americas
A set of footprints buried in the dunes of New Mexico’s White Sands National Park has landed in the middle of an ongoing reevaluation of...
Centuries-old tools reveal how the Chikasha people fought off conquistadors
In the mid-16th century, the residents of a regional capital called Chikasha, situated in the prairies and flatwoods of eastern...
A discovery found in Germany’s ‘Unicorn Cave’ hints at Neanderthal art
Neanderthals are often portrayed as Homo sapiens’s crude, primitive relatives, incapable of sophisticated culture, but new archaeological...
The debate over ‘Dragon Man’ shows that human origins are still kind of messy
For more than 80 years, Chris Stringer says a nearly intact, ancient human skull sat at the bottom of a well in Harbin City, Heilongjiang...
Humans may have arrived in the Americas 15,000 years earlier than we thought
Over the millenia, the Coxcatlan Cave, in the Valley of Tehuacan, Mexico has been home to tens of thousands of years of human history....
Dire wolves are actually ice age mega-foxes
When you picture a dire wolf, the image that comes to mind is probably one of those unbelievably fluffy yet terrifying creatures that...
This fossilized butthole gives us a rare window into dinosaur sex
A rendering of Psittacosaurus, showing how the cloaca might have been used during courtship Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020 Though...
