Workers at a quarry in Taung, South Africa, uncovered a remarkable skull in 1924, during an era when the location for the origin of modern humans was contested. Most researchers considered ...

The fastest animal on land is the cheetah, capable of reaching top speeds of 104 kilometers per hour. In the water, the ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Bronze Age civilization along the Indus River offers insights into the DNA origin of Indians and reshaping early regional ...

A recent study by Harvard reveals that the evolutionary transition to an upright posture in mammals was complex and occurred ...

Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash, Co-Founders of the Office of (Un)Certainty Research, take us on a journey of a ...

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In an important discovery, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the National Academy of Sciences of ...

as is happening today due to (emissions generated by humans), evolution can’t keep pace with the environmental change." "To minimize the consequences of (modern) climate change by ...

The 2024 "Tell China's Stories" International Creative Communication Contest was launched with a ceremony in Shanghai on ...