An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

A new study published Monday in the journal PNAS, upended the widely held theory about monotremes—the most ancient living order of mammals, now down to just platypuses and echidnas. “By using ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than previously thought. This indicates that they could adapt the ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including archaeologists, have analyzed the DNA of fish remains from Roman fish ...

An ancient bone discovered in a French cave could prove the existence of an unknown human species. The bone, which is believed to be a hip bone, is known as an ilium and was excavated from a cave ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new study says early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search.

Based on the dating of the context in which the newly discovered bone tools were found, the researchers suggest that this technology may have played a role in the transition from the Oldowan (2.6 ...

Ancient dog penis bone — stained red for Roman fertility ritual — found in UK quarry By Irene Wright. January 08, 2025 12:06 PM.

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a “hobbit” who lived around 700,000 ...

At an ancient Roman quarry in Surrey, England, an oddly colored bone suggests it may have been used in a fertility ritual, researchers said. elliot via Unsplash Ahead of a development project at ...

Ancient humans consistently used bone tools at least one million years earlier than was previously thought. ‘Truly gobsmacked’: Ancient-human genome count surpasses 10,000.