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Ancient human ancestor bone was 'butchered by another ancestor for meat'
Yahoo News UK· 11 months agoView of the hominin tibia – the magnified area that shows cut marks. (Briana Pobiner) Briana Pobiner...
Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering a...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAncient DNA preserved in the tooth tartar of human fossils encodes microbial metabolites that could...
Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWhat does it mean to be human? For a long time, the answer seemed clear. Our species, Homo sapiens —...
How a 3.2-million-year-old human relative named Lucy walked
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 months agoResearchers have digitally reconstructed the leg muscles of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.2...
Inside the cave where a nonhuman species carved mysterious symbols
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 months agoDiscoveries within the Cradle of Humankind’s limestone caves in South Africa are changing the way...
Human and ape ancestors arose in Europe, not in Africa, controversial study claims
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWe see different angles of a skull against a black background. The newly identified ape and human...
Cut-up prehistoric bone raises questions about early human cannibalism
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoClose-up photos of three fossil animal specimens from the same area and time horizon as the fossil...
Ancient bones confirm earliest-known human ancestor walked upright
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhat may be the earliest-known human ancestor, an ape-man called Sahelanthropus tchadensis who lived...
Strange, 300,000-year-old jawbone unearthed in China may come from vanished human lineage
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFragments of a jaw bone unearthed in China have a mosaic of features that are present in both modern...
Kermit the Frog Inspires Name of New Ancient Amphibian Species Discovered by Researchers
People via Yahoo News· 2 months agoScientists at the Smithsonian identified a fossilized skull from a 270 million-year-old amphibian,...