These Mountain Lakes Should Never Have Had Trout. New Evidence Points to Prehistoric Humans Gizmodo By: Gayoung Lee 20 July 2026 at 20:55 The 7,000-year-old fish traps represent the first known evidence that humans were responsible for an unlikely population of brown trout in the mountains.
Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says Gizmodo By: Matthew Phelan 18 June 2026 at 20:50 An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago.
Scientists Just Rewrote the Origin Story of One of Humanityβs Deadliest Diseases Gizmodo By: Gayoung Lee 17 June 2026 at 16:35 The outbreak occurred much earlier than the Middle Ages and had an unexpectedly high mortality rate.
Bed Bugs Took Over When Humans Built the First Cities. They Never Left Us Since ZME Science By: Tudor Tarita 5 June 2026 at 14:49 New DNA evidence reveals bed bugs tracked human expansion from ancient caves to modern cities.