Evolution Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Butterflies and moths share "blocks" of DNA dating back more than 200 million years, new research shows. Scientists from the Universities of Exeter

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has brought us one step closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled naturalists since Charles Darwin: when did animals

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The missing link has just been found between the earliest dinosaurs, whose size ranged from a few centimeters to at most three meters

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Thor, the legendary Norse god from the mythological city of Asgard, is not alone. According to groundbreaking research published in the journal Nature, we

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University and University of Bristol have revealed. Until

AncientPages.com - The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of

AncientPages.com - Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past - Neanderthals. But the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt