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What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.
No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...
Paleolithic humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of marine tool-making discovered.
Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the ...
For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.
Archaeologists led by Ankara University have unearthed the oldest known stone human figurines of Anatolia, dating back 19,000 ...
In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging ...
The most salient result was a 77% increase in total body bone mineral content (21.6 g, from 28.0 to 49.6 g) in patient 1, who grew 2.5 cm and did not gain weight during the first 100 days after ...
Oracle-bone inscriptions were excavated from Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China. They were records of making divination and praying to gods by late Shang people from 1400 B.C.-1100 B.C..
The pneumatic tire and the chain drive, followed by the development of gears, revolutionized bicycling in the later 1800s. In the last fifteen years, there has been a revolution of sorts in the ...