Earliest example of right-handedness found in Australian fossils
If you occur to be right-handed, you could possibly hint the origins of that trait to a wormlike animal that lived about 550 million years in the past and had…
The “Hobbits” Mysteriously Disappeared 50,000 Years Ago – Scientists Have Revealed What Happened to Their Home
Homo floresiensis cranium. Credit: Shutterstock A protracted drought on Flores might have helped drive Homo floresiensis and its prey away from their cave refuge. For greater than one million years,…
520-Million-Year-Old Fossils Solve One of Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries
Reconstruction of the early Cambrian seafloor, depicting colonies of Protomelission gatehousei and Dayingomelission hexaclitia residing amongst archaeocyath reefs in shallow seas roughly 520 million years in the past. Credit: Zhifei…
Hazy nightmare, puzzling fossils, huge cannabis stash: Catch up on the day’s stories
Facebook Tweet Email Link Threads 👋 Welcome to five Things PM! Divers stumbled on one thing surprising in a cave on an Italian island widespread with the wealthy and well-known:…
Fossils of archaic human found in a cave are the same sex. Scientists want to learn why
Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa over the previous decade — and what they’ve revealed has rocked…
100,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fossils in Poland Reveal Unexpected Genetic Connections
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) have been an extinct group of archaic people who lived throughout Europe and western Asia till about 40,000 years in the past, adapting to numerous and sometimes…
Cretaceous Kraken and Robotic Table Tennis: Sci-Tech Breakthroughs
Fossils of an enormous Cretaceous octopus, nicknamed the ‘Cretaceous Kraken,’ reveal that it dominated prehistoric seas, echoing tales of the legendary Kraken. Tech thrills proceed as Ace, an AI-powered…