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The discovery has implications for ideas about early hominin evolution and dispersal from Africa.
Human fossils found in a cave on Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, include tiny molars suggesting their owners were small; curved finger and toe bones hint that they climbed trees.
Archaeologists have revealed the first example of Paleolithic figurative cave art found in the Balkan Peninsula.
“It is now possible to try to answer a question no one has asked before: Are there genetic similarities between evolutionary adaption paths in Neanderthals and mammoths?”
School children should go out into the world with a respect for the first peoples of Australia and all they have achieved.
Some asteroids in the solar system may have featured volcanoes that spewed out liquid iron, two research teams have independently concluded.
Ivy Merriot theorizes that Native Americans used a series of stones arranged like a spoked wheel to understand, remember and predict astronomical events.
Tight NHS restrictions mean private patients have better access to drugs, experts say.
Koch and his colleagues attribute the dip in atmospheric carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas associated with warming—to the loss of more than 50 million people in the Americas.
This reduction is a reversal of the trend of cranial expansion, which had been occurring in human evolution for millions of years prior.
For the first time scientists have been able to prove a decades old theory on stars thanks to a revolutionary high-speed camera.
Europe's next asteroid mission, which could launch in 2023, will rely on the same kind of navigation technology as self-driving cars.
The debate last week about the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act provided a textbook answer.
A "frustrated" Carly Barton, 32, says she has resorted to growing and illegally buying the drug she had legally been prescribed.
Six in 10 GP partners and one in three nurses working in primary care said they have seen an increase in patients asking about medicines which contain cannabis.
Two-Spirit powwows are part of a growing movement among Native Americans who say rigid ideas of gender and sexuality are unfortunate remnants of colonization.
The same Native communities that have been hit hardest by Midwestern flooding are also some of the most vocally opposed to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Recently discovered tomb of official dating back more than 2,000 years contains dozens of animals and two mummies.
Researchers affiliated with the Lost Crops Network are using advances in genetics to understand how Native Americans domesticated and cultivated now-extinct ancient crops.
Mass burials were exceptionally rare in ancient Egypt — so why did all these mummies end up in the same place?
Tongzi's teeth do not fit the morphological pattern of traditional Homo erectus.
Four legs, webbed feet and hooves on its toes: this new fossil discovery from Peru doesn't sound like a typical whale.
For four decades, researchers believed the 2,200-year-old bronze weapons of the Terracotta Warriors were amazingly preserved because they were chrome plated.
The duck-billed, crested lambeosaurine shows that a diverse array of dinos lived in the warmer but still harsh Arctic 70 million years ago.
New findings reveal that hunter-gatherers took to farming 5,000 years ago in eastern Sweden and on the Aland Islands.
On Tuesday, New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation abolishing Columbus Day as a national holiday.
At the University of Oregon, teams of Native researchers are building digital archives containing historical documentation to make language knowledge available to their communities.
The team's findings suggest that organized religion emerged much earlier in the region than previously thought.
The culturally significant art was found after a boulder threatened to fall onto tracks.
Scientists have discovered a duck-billed dinosaur fossil in Alaska's North Slope that reveals that these animals were more diverse than previously believed.
Users will be fined 1,000 shekels, unless they're soldiers, minors or already have a criminal record. Opponents say reform makes things worse for first-time offenders.
The find adds to a growing number of fossils from China that don't fit neatly in the existing human family tree.
An analysis of teeth suggests the Hyksos dynasty arose from outsiders marrying into power.
Inside it the mission found two mummies in poor condition covered by gold chips.
The ACLU has sued South Dakota on behalf of indigenous and environmental activists, saying state laws violates the First Amendment right to protest.
The use of medicinal cannabis has been allowed in Germany for two years, but because domestic cultivation hasn't gotten off the ground, the plant has been imported. That might change soon.
A fossil site has captured the moments just after the asteroid thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs collided with Earth, palaeontologists have claimed.
From Australia to the Andes, indigenous peoples understand that trees sustain us and are part of our human world.
On April 1, scientists will officially restart their search for gravitational waves after a year spent making improvements to massive twin detectors.
Today, scientists report use of "X-ray vision" to gain brand-new insights about the layers of paint in rock art in Texas without needless damage.
What’s remarkable about the megafaunal crash in Madagascar is that it occurred not tens of thousands of years ago but just over 1,000 years ago, between A.D. 700 and 1000.
These mysterious humans were so diverse that their populations were as distantly related to each other as they were to Neanderthals.
Archaeologists have fond evidence suggesting ancient Maya people grew surplus crops to support an active trade with neighbors up and down the Yucatan Peninsula.
Native American farming was more sophisticated than your history textbook told you.
A rapid period of warming more than 120,000 years ago drove Neanderthals in the south of France to eat six of their own, new research suggests.
The asteroid is estimated to be twice as big as the Pyramid of Khufu in Giza and will return for another visit 16 years from now.
Repatriation requests are prompting new questions about the stories of "discovery" that many museums have traditionally told.
A new species of mastodon specific to a small segment of the North American West has been discovered. It is the first new North American mastodon species to be recognized in 50 years.
Madrid rejects Mexican president’s demand for apology for crimes against indigenous people.
In addition to the carved-rock inscription, the researchers also found 14 stele (inscriptions carved on a stone slab or pillar) and 45 ostraca (inscriptions written on pieces of pottery).
Starting 5000 years ago, the Yamnaya embarked on a violent conquest of Europe. Now genetic analysis tells their tale for the first time.
Chemical traces in fossils allow scientists to track movements of ancient ocean giants.
A new study finds that even people long past middle age can make fresh brain cells, and that past studies that failed to spot these newcomers may have used flawed methods.
The ability to sense the Earth’s magnetic field is well documented among many animals, but researchers have struggled to show that humans are also capable of the feat. Until now.
Two instruments on NASA's Terra satellite caught images of the fireball explosion on Dec. 18, 2018.
Less that 24 hours after the 2019 Descent of the Plumed Serpent, a small tornado appeared on the steps. A coincidence? A sign? Of what?
Changing cannabis laws have resulted in a noticeable boost in the American job market and it's estimated that 211,000 people are now directly employed in the industry full time.
The fossils from the Cambrian Period include dozens of new species and provide a window into life more than 500 million years ago.
This is so far the largest of its kind that has ever been discovered outside of a cave in Central Europe.
Researchers have been using a genetic approach to tackle one of the most intractable questions of all—how and when we became truly human.
The islands’ pioneers likely arrived centuries before European conquest, as part of a large-scale movement of people from North Africa.
The researchers found that the early Anatolian farmers derived the vast majority of their ancestry (~90 percent) from a population related to the Anatolian hunter-gatherer in the study.
New evidence pushes back the date for human settlement in jungles, challenging the idea that our ancestors preferred the savannas and plains.
The NASA spacecraft analysing the asteroid has observed it shooting out plumes of dust that surround it in a dusty haze - a phenomenon we've never seen in an asteroid before.
Because of Anjouan's fiery origins, the entire island should be uniformly composed of volcanic basalt: a dark-coloured, lava-derived rock.
Archaeologists have started searching for genetic data inside ordinary objects such as pipes, which can contain centuries-old saliva.
A huge fireball exploded in the Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa. It went largely unnoticed until now because it blew up over the Bering Sea, off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
This steering system had been seen in representations and models through the Pharaonic period - but we had no firm archaeological evidence of its existence until now.
The Sodre astrolabe is believed to have been made between 1496 and 1501 and is unique in comparison to all other mariner’s astrolabes.
‘We have artificially created a state that evolves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time,’ researcher says.
The ruling in favour of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali groups paves the way for billions of dollars in compensation.
A study of 8,000 years of genetics from Spain and Portugal yields a surprisingly complex picture of the inhabitants' ancestry.
These new sounds became possible when agriculture put softer foods on our plates, causing teeth to go through less wear and tear.
More evidence of a cosmic impact, this time from south of the equator, that likely caused climate change and megafaunal extinctions.
The space rock has an estimated size of 75 feet in diameter, so it’s slightly larger than the asteroid that penetrated the atmosphere over the skies of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013.
The state will begin licensing dispensaries on April 11th, though it will likely take several months before dispensaries start to implement smoking sections.
H. floresiensis’ departure from Liang Bua may simply be because they—and the others—left in search of more open environments.
While there won’t be any woolly mammoths rising from the grave soon, the experiment could help scientists explore alternative resurrection methods in the future.
Scientists are finding that people with rare diseases often enjoyed the support of their societies, survived well into adulthood, and were buried with their communities, not as marginalized outsiders.
Dating back more than 12,000 years, this extraordinary example of rock art features a scene involving birds and humans—a rarity for the Paleolithic Period on several accounts.
“It’s actually a woman, somewhere over the age of 30 and fairly tall, too, measuring around 5 feet 6 inches tall,” Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, an archaeologist at Uppsala University told The Local.
‘The war on drugs has not been a war on drugs, it’s been a war on people,’ says Cory Booker.
The cascade of pro-legalisation candidates is a reflection of a country where attitudes towards marijuana have shifted dramatically.
Private centre launched by professor who helped young epilepsy sufferer Alfie Dingley secure cannabis licence.
Despite what Hollywood tells us, stopping an asteroid from creating an extinction-level event by blowing it up may not work.
This remnant protoplanet, in fact, remains the largest unexplored planetary body inside the orbit of Neptune.
These hidden tunnels and rooms are all that's left of the military base on the 20 hectare (50 acre) island, a facility built to keep San Francisco safe from invasion.
It was the first time in United States history that an indigenous woman sat in the House Speaker chair.
Maybe not, according to a new study that says dinosaurs still had plenty of vim and vigor leading up to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Rabbit habit in prehistoric southern Europe had not been expected, because catching one is a huge pain for a very small meal.
Some researchers point to new evidence from archaeology, history, and genetics to argue that the Black Death likely did sow devastation in medieval sub-Saharan Africa.
This finding points to the emergence of beer yeast from a historical East-West transfer of fermentation technology, similar to the transfer of domesticated plants and animals by way of the Silk Route.
The move is part of the lawmakers’ efforts to end the war on drugs in the U.S., which already led to over-policing and incarceration of racial minorities for nonviolent crimes.
Much older than Stonehenge, and even Gobekli Tepe, the ‘Nawarla Gabarnmung’ Stone monument in Arnhem land Australia is 50,000 years old.
The trove of fossils, which date back to the Pleistocene Epoch, have challenged beliefs previously held by paleontologists.
Through directly dating a sample from one of the combs, it has been determined that the artefacts are 2,700-years-old – much older than originally thought.
‘History is being squeezed out’ of a curriculum focused on Stem subjects, educators say.
Findings show that asteroids are stronger than we used to think and require more energy to be completely shattered.
The oldest known marsupials are actually from North America, where they evolved during the Cretaceous period after splitting off from placental mammals at least 125 million years ago.
It turns out, when we have little time left, many of us may see the people we miss the most.