An international team of researchers has documented a set of fossilized footprints that offer an exceptional snapshot of the behavior of a group of ancient human relatives who inhabited the shores of a lake in northern Kenya. The recently published study analyzes the imprints belonging to eight individuals of the species Paranthropus boisei, an extinct […]
Des terriers restés prisonniers du pergélisol pendant des centaines de milliers d’années ont livré un témoignage exceptionnel sur les écosystèmes de l’ère glaciaire. Grâce à l’ADN préservé dans des excréments fossilisés d’écureuils terrestres, des chercheurs ont reconstitué une partie de leur...
Scientists have uncovered compelling new evidence that early human ancestors, likely Homo erectus, were deliberately bringing fire into Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa as far back as 1.79 million years ago.
Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate species ever known to have lived.
The extinct Eurasian cave lion (Panthera spelaea) and today’s African and Asian lions (Panthera leo) belong to separate evolutionary lineages that diverged roughly 1.7 million years ago -- far earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of 12 cave lion genomes spanning more than 100,000 years.
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