Neanderthals May Have Used the World’s First Antibiotic 50,000 Years Ago
Creating birch tar using Neanderthal methods. Image credits: University of Cologne. If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000…
Scientists Just Reconstructed the 3.6-Million-Year-Old Skull of ‘Little Foot’, One of Our Oldest Relatives
Left to right: The original skull, digital scan, and reconstructed face of Little Foot. Credit: Amélie Beaudet Scientists…
600-million-year-old secret of the human body may lie inside this brainless ocean creature |
The ocean still hides many secrets, and sometimes the smallest or simplest creatures reveal the biggest clues about…
Neanderthal Men and Human Women Were Most Likely to Hook Up, Study Finds
Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our…
Neanderthal Men and Homo Sapiens Women
Image via Wiki Commons. We now know that humans and Neanderthals interbred several times across thousands of years.…
Did Humans Nearly Go Extinct 900,000 Years Ago? A Biologist Explains
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what…
Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer
The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s…
Humans broke one of evolution’s basic rules by losing fur — and survived
For most animals, losing fur would be a death sentence. Hair isn’t cosmetic in the wild, it’s survival…
Stone Age humans hunted with poisoned arrows
 Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows…
From a dino superhighway to origins of fire-making: The incredible discoveries in 2025
From gigantic dinosaur footprints frozen in stone to a spectacular parade of planets, science in 2025 delivered moments…
Southern Africa’s Role in Human Evolution Unveiled
New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one…
Neanderthals and early humans reshaped Europe’s landscapes long before the rise of agriculture, study finds
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s…