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Mysterious seafloor bones off Taiwan suggest Denisovans stood over 6-foot tall
27+ min ago (480+ words) Much of what researchers know about them has come from genetics rather than complete skeletons. Scientists studying ancient human remains recovered from the waters between Taiwan and the Penghu Islands say the bones could help fill in the sparse fossil…...
See fossils up close at PaleoCon at Hemet’s Western Science Center
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (319+ words) PaleoCon, a fossil-themed event, is returning for a fourth year to the Western Science Center, a natural history museum in Hemet. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, and will feature presentations by paleontologists from across the country. The participating…...
Roar into a story!
19+ hour ago (270+ words) Posted by Mary Pom Claiborne | Aug 19, 2026 | Our Town Readers | 0 School is back in session, and our libraries are a little quieter these days, but what a summer we had! This year’s Read City USA summer library challenge theme, Roar into…...
Genetic Archaeology - Traces of Two Mysterious Hominid Species Found in the Human Genome » News of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek and Osh — latest events today
11+ hour, 9+ min ago (169+ words) Genetic Archaeology - Traces of Two Mysterious Hominid Species Found in the Human Genome open.kg Scientists from the USA have successfully reconstructed ancient interbreeding events of Homo sapiens using an innovative method called Trace, which does not require fossil remains....
Brenda Smith, a Jefferson County Library children’s librarian, reads to Luca Saputo, 3, of Festus at the Joachim Loop Trail in Herculaneum, where a Story Walk was recently installed.
6+ hour, 29+ min ago (136+ words) Leader Publications Brenda Smith, a Jefferson County Library childrenâs librarian, reads to Luca Saputo, 3, of Festus at the Joachim Loop Trail in Herculaneum, where a Story Walk was recently installed. Cedar Hill man charged for allegedly shooting his wife…...
Crocodiles still live wild in the middle of the Sahara desert, trapped there since the desert itself used to be green
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (583+ words) A species abandoned by climate change six thousand years ago still clings to existence in Earth's harshest landscape, waiting for a rescue that may never come. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit In a…...
Why It Might Be Time to Rethink the Human Family Tree
8+ hour, 6+ min ago (867+ words) The way we classify humanity’s ancient relatives is a mess. But there’s a simple fix. 11:00 AM CDT on August 19, 2026 Each of these is a “genus,” the rank just above a species. (In Homo sapiens, Homo is the genus and sapiens is…...
Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo
8+ hour ago (579+ words) Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million years of hominin fossils into the genus Homo, arguing that traits once used to separate species — big brains, tool use — no longer hold…...
Were Denisovans tall compared to other ancient humans? We should be sceptical
4+ hour, 23+ min ago (946+ words) Take a walk in London’s Trafalgar Square this summer and wilting under the heat will be all sorts of body sizes, some tall, some short: a real mix of sizes. Picking just two from the crowd to represent the whole…...
Paleontologists Found Four Snakes That Died Curled Together in a Burrow 38 Million Years Ago, Preserved by Volcanic Ash
10+ hour, 11+ min ago (374+ words) Deep in a Wyoming hillside, four ancient snakes were found curled together exactly as they died, a scene frozen in time for 38 million years. What preserved them so perfectly, and what they reveal about how snakes once survived the cold,…...