Four teeth found in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China have scientists scratching their heads. In 1972 … More
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Hybrid DNA In Denisova Cave Continues To Reshape What We Know About Ancient Humans
In 2014, two archaeologists, Katerina Douka and Tom Higham, paid a visit to Denisova Cave—a site high up in Siberia’s … More
What Is Causing All Bodies Great And Small To Shrink On This Remote Island?
In 2003, researchers digging in a mountain cave on the Indonesian island of Flores discovered astonishing fossils of a tiny, … More
Discovery Proves Human Activity In The Americas 130,000 Years Ago
Each and every scientific discovery sends a small ripple through academia – it changes what we know about the world … More
Mystery Ancient Human Found In Australasian Family Tree
Who’s your daddy? An unknown hominin species that bred with early human ancestors when they migrated from Africa to Australasia … More
Oldest Human DNA Ever Found Could Rewrite Evolutionary History
Researchers have managed to sequence a section of the oldest human DNA ever, taken from the 430,000-year-old teeth and thigh bones … More
