Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can…
Neanderthals May Have Hunted Giant Elephants that Roamed across Prehistoric Europe
Chemical clues preserved in the teeth of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) from the 125,000-year-old site of Neumark-Nord in…
New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis
Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unknown crocodile species that shared the landscape with a…
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI film tech company, InterPositive
In 2022, Ben Affleck became so fixated on AI in film production that he quietly launched his own…
The mating game: New DNA study shows female humans often interbred with Neanderthal males
By Tokunbo Salako with AP Published on 04/03/2026 – 15:14 GMT+1 If the simplest explanation is often the most likely, then…
Study: Ancient Mating Preferences, Not Natural Selection, Helped Shape Human Genome
Prehistoric humans and Neanderthals didn’t just interbreed, they did so with a consistent sex bias, as male Neanderthals…
A horse’s neigh may be unique in the animal kingdom. Now scientists know how they do it
NEW YORK — Horses whinny to find new friends, greet old ones and celebrate happy moments like feeding time. How…
Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out
By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and…
Romans used human faeces as medicine 1,900 years ago: Study | Dark brown fragments were found | Inshorts – Inshorts
Romans used human faeces as medicine 1,900 years ago: Study | Dark brown fragments were found | Inshorts InshortsRomans…
China’s Xigou Site Yields Evidence of Advanced Stone Tool Technology
Technological innovations in Africa and Western Europe in the later part of the Middle Pleistocene signal the behavioral…
Enigmatic Hominins May Have Overlapped with Homo sapiens on Sulawesi
At Leang Bulu Bettue, a rock-shelter in the Maros-Pangkep karst region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, paleoanthropologists…
Gut Microbes Played Role in Evolution of Human Brain, New Study Suggests
Compared to other primates, humans have remarkably large brains relative to their body sizes. The resultant high demands…