18+ hour, 27+ min ago  (376+ words) SAPPORO - Human bones discovered across southern China and Southeast Asia were intentionally smoke-dried over fire, with some dating back more than 10,000 years, predating the mummification practices of a culture long thought to be the world's earliest, a recent study has…...

18+ hour, 56+ min ago  (113+ words) SUMMERSVILLE, WV (WVNS) " Calling all Cryptid fans! The 2026 West Virginia Bigfoot Festival is moving to Nicholas County this year! The event is hosted by the The West Virginia Bigfoot Museum. The event will kick off on October 9th at 11 a.m. and last…...

23+ hour, 57+ min ago  (434+ words) Learn more about human skull shape and how it has changed over millions of years. When a child is born, their brain is only a fraction of the size that it will one day grow to be. As many caretakers…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (818+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a limestone building that belongs to the long-lost temple of King Apries. The discovery anchors one of Egypt's missing royal monuments to a defined sector of the ancient capital and restores a pharaoh's presence to its historic…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (400+ words) A new study suggests Neanderthal males mated with human females more often than the reverse pairing Modern humans of European and Asian ancestry still carry up to 2% Neanderthal DNA from ancient interbreeding A new study has revealed new insights into…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (554+ words) A new study has shed light on a little-known chapter of human history " and it suggests that love and attraction may have shaped our DNA in surprising ways. Researchers have found that when Neanderthals and early humans interbred tens of…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (461+ words) Cyprus Mail - Do Not Process My Personal Information A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 " crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe " bears…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (924+ words) Most people with non-African ancestry carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA scattered across their genomes. But there's a long-standing mystery: the X chromosome is strangely empty of it. For years, scientists assumed that natural selection scrubbed away harmful Neanderthal…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (553+ words) A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed proto-writing in the Stone Age. Night Sky This Week Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (652+ words) Ice Age carvings of dots and crosses show information patterns that match early proto-cuneiform, a new PNAS study finds. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) A new computational analysis argues otherwise. Linguist Christian Bentz of Saarland University and…...