Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University and University of Bristol have revealed. Until now, the hard-shelled egg was thought to be the key to the […]
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are
AncientPages.com – The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of course, his beloved Rhône Valley in France. For the past year and
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion years ago. They differed from complex eukaryotic life as we know it,
AncientPages.com – Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years were excessively rare. Only four sites had been reported in the whole
AncientPages.com – Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In an episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here,” former
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. In a new study, researchers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Every so often, life on Earth steps onto a nearly empty playing field and faces a spectacular opportunity. Something major changes—in the atmosphere or in the oceans, or in the organisms themselves —and the existing
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans, and those humans were in the long past – Neanderthals. But the question remains: how tar was made by Neanderthals? Königsaue birch tar and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has shown that humans may have evolved a spring-like arch to help us walk on two feet. Researchers studying the evolution of bipedal walking have long assumed that the raised arch of
