Ancient bone could reveal how Neanderthals cared for a child with Down syndrome By Katie Hunt, CNN 5 minute read Updated 8:56 AM EDT, Thu June 27, 2024 Link Copied! Follow: ...

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 ...

Ancient bone could reveal how Neanderthals cared for a child with Down syndrome. Katie Hunt, CNN. Thu, June 27, 2024 at 12:56 PM UTC. 5 min read. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

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 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 ...

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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 ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered a large collection of ancient tools crafted out of hippopotamus and elephant bones, pushing back the age of bone tool kits made by ancient humans a million years.

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