In these decades, one of the most intriguing puzzles in paleoanthropology has been the Harbin skull known as “Dragon Man.” Discovered almost a century ago from the depths of a Chinese well, the large, thick-browed cranium defied categorization and generated intense arguments on its position in the human family tree. Now, innovative genetic and protein ...
For decades, the story of human evolution has been pieced together from fragments of fossilized bones, stone tools, and, more recently, ancient DNA. But what happens when DNA degrades beyond recovery, leaving scientists with only enamel and dentin to decode the secrets of our ancestors? A groundbreaking new study has cracked the code, using proteins ...
In an amazing turn of events, a large-scale land reclamation project in Indonesia has resurrected a lost world, rather than only sand. While workers were building off an artificial island off Java, they dragged 6,700 fossils from the seafloor, including two skull fragments of Homo erectus, our ancient human predecessors. These 140,000-year-old fossils expose a ...
The Denisovans, a deeply mysterious branch of the human family tree, have obsessed researchers across the globe for decades. Except for a finger bone discovered in Siberia, some teeth found in Tibet, and strands of DNA found in modern humans, they were virtually unknown. Now, an astonishing discovery in the form of a jawbone found ...
A quiet dig in Romania unearthed more than ancient bones it cracked open our understanding of when and how humans first stepped into Europe. What seemed like a routine fossil find turned out to be a game-changer in the timeline of human migration. A Quiet Discovery That Shook the Timeline of Human Expansion In 2017, ...
