Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report in Nature Microbiology. The discovery
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives and modern humans share 99.7% of their DNA. These intriguing beings were widespread across Europe and Western Asia for a long time, about 400,000 years ago, and they died
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists have
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did the ice sheets that rang in the last ice age more than
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China’s most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), as part of a team of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using the latest scientific methods, researchers want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left? Two scientists who were the first ones to find a first-generation offspring of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-meter tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago. Burn
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – With the help of the world’s most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of researchers has theorized how the extreme conditions in stars produce carbon-12, which they describe as “a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. These ancient humans disappeared about 50,000 years ago. Denisovans are known from few physical remains,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecessors such as Neanderthals that we are who we
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have investigated whether Neanderthals were well adapted to life in the cold or preferred more temperate environmental conditions. Based on investigations in Lichtenberg in the Wendland region (Lower Saxony, Germany), the researchers showed that
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The scientific debate concerning when the first people reached the American continent continues. A new analysis of archaeological sites in the Americas challenges relatively new theories that the earliest human inhabitants of North America arrived
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Professor of anthropology has put forward an intriguing theory stating ancient hominin species may still be living in the forests of Flores Island, Indonesia. In 2013 the discovery of a tiny species known as
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists has found clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human evolution. According to the new study published in Nature early human habitats are linked to past climate
