» Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird traced to Africa
» Pottery reveals America's first social media networks
» Neanderthals' main food source was definitely meat
» Homo sapiens colonized South Asian rainforest by hunting small mammals 45,000 years ago
» Biodiversity on land is not higher today than in the past, study shows
» Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia
» Dog burial as common ritual in Neolithic populations of north-eastern Iberian Peninsula
» Neanderthal footprints found in Gibraltar
» 'X-ray gun' helps researchers pinpoint the origins of pottery found on ancient shipwreck
» New technique pinpoints milestones in the evolution of bacteria
» Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
» A taste for fat may have made us human
» Medieval inks for heritage conservation
» Over 800 new genome regions possibly relevant to human evolution identified
» The Caucasus: Complex interplay of genes and cultures
» Sexing ancient cremated human remains is possible through skeletal measurements
» Deep history of archaic humans in southern Siberia
» Ancient Mongolian skull is the earliest modern human yet found in the region
» Challenges of curating ancient biomolecules
» Humans colonized diverse environments in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the Pleistocene
» Crocodiles have complex past
» Human mutation rate has slowed recently
» A surprisingly early replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in southern Spain
» Scientists confirm pair of skeletons are from same early hominin species
» An ancient relative of humans shows a surprisingly modern trait
» Artificial intelligence applied to the genome identifies an unknown human ancestor
» New insights into what Neolithic people ate in Southeastern Europe
» Climate change during ancient Indus Civilization
» DNA tool allows you to trace your ancient ancestry
» 15-meter-long ancient whale Basilosaurus isis was top marine predator
» Illuminating women's role in the creation of medieval manuscripts
» Evolution used same genetic formula to turn animals monogamous
» Surfer's ear points to ancient pearl divers in Panama
» Genetic study reveals how citrus became the Med's favorite squeeze
» Peering into Little Foot's 3.67-million-year-old brain
» Ancient Japanese pottery includes an estimated 500 maize weevils
» Satellite data exposes looting of archaeological sites
» Neanderthal genes give clues to human brain evolution
» An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic Europeans
» Ideal marriage partners drive Waorani warriors to war
» Study puts the Neotropics on the map of the world's food production centers in antiquity
» New archaeological site revises human habitation timeline on Tibetan plateau
» Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths
» Stone tools linked to ancient human ancestors in Arabia have surprisingly recent date
» Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years ago
» Prehistoric cave art suggests ancient use of complex astronomy
» First ancient DNA from mainland Finland reveals origins of Siberian ancestry in region
» Human ancestors not to blame for ancient mammal extinctions in Africa
» Evolution: South Africa's hominin record is a fair-weather friend
» The 'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' found in Asia, suggests homegrown technology
» Late Miocene ape maxilla (upper jaw) discovered in western India
» Primates of the Caribbean: Ancient DNA reveals history of mystery monkey
» New light cast on fishing throughout history
» The whole tooth: New method to find biological sex from a single tooth
» The new face of South American people
» Experts find that stone tools connected communities
» Ancient DNA evidence reveals two unknown migrations from North to South America
» History of early settlement and survival in Andean highlands revealed by ancient genomes
» DNA of world's oldest natural mummy unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas
» Broad genome analysis shows yeasts evolving by subtraction