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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Our lineage's species formation pattern was unlike anything else. A cast of the skull of Homo Heidelbergensis, one of the hominin species analyzed

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  In 2023, scientists presented several interesting studies that gave us a better knowledge of our ancient human ancestors. In this article, we selected

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An extensive study sheds new light on the complex evolution of our feet. "The human foot is one of the most complex masterpieces of evolution,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings. In

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team used advanced sequencing technology to analyze Ötzi’s genome to obtain a more accurate picture of the Iceman’s appearance and genetic

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans' close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one

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

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

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Half a billion years ago, an unusual-looking animal crawled over the sea floor, using tentacles to pick up food particles along the way. Known

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Every biologist knows that small structures can sometimes have a big impact: Millions of signaling molecules, hormones, and other biomolecules are bustling

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists say they are investigating a 1-million-year-old human skull that gives a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional environmental context of the evolution and dispersal of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new