Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Fossil skeletons have long fascinated researchers as a window to prehistory. But so far, little is known about details of sexual development in extinct creatures. Keichousaurus – Live reconstruction of two Keichousaurus. Image credit: @Takumi
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 now there’s new evidence they did so long before scientists previously thought.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – University of North Florida faculty member Dr. Barry Albright is part of a research team led by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) who have unlocked new evolutionary information following the discovery of a
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 uncovered a new model of human evolution, overturning previous beliefs that a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one another. View of the hominin tibia and magnified area that shows cut
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 fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants. The research published in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers. The animals, such as the Eocene Hyracotherium, had feet like those of a modern
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 in length, and more recent giants that could be more than twice
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Digital modelling of legendary fossil’s soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles that allowed fully erect walking. Left: Reconstruction of Lucy at the National
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 Chez-Pinaud-Jonzac Neanderthal site settles the question. Published in PLOS ONE, it sheds light
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands of years we lived side by side in Europe and Asia. And
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 humans—along with eagles, starfish, daisies and every complex organism on Earth—are, in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do. When our early Homo sapiens ancestors first arrived in Southeast Asia on
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 now, the hard-shelled egg was thought to be the key to the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are
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 course, his beloved Rhône Valley in France. For the past year and
