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April 18, 2025

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought. Read more

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May 3, 2023

Insights into Stone Age people’s lives may soon come from a new, nondestructive DNA extraction method. Read more

Scientific American

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December 20, 2024

The moon may have melted 4.35 billion years ago—explaining a lunar age mystery Read more

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March 26, 2014

New fossils suggest that a distant relative of lobsters used bristled limbs to net its prey, not spike it. Read more

Scientific American

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October 10, 2022

Walking on all fours helped shape the panda's “thumb” Read more

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June 9, 2022

Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers are losing ice faster than any other time in the last 5,500 years. That history is written in bones and shells. Read more

EurekAlert!

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May 15, 2012

Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from the University of Sheffield how soil dwelling fungi played a crucial role in the evolution of plants. Read more

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January 18, 2012

People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and emeritus staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Read more

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January 5, 2024

Of more than 400 teeth collected, just 21 were chipped, suggesting that early primate diets were soft on their choppers. Read more

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February 22, 2012

Researchers have discovered an extremely old anthropomorphic figure engraved in rock in Brazil. Read more