Recent articles
February 20, 2026
"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.
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February 17, 2026
Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland
Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers.
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January 23, 2026
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world's oldest human-made art
The world's oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration.
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January 16, 2026
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
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January 14, 2026
Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach
Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly.
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January 7, 2026
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
A recent study suggests that North Africa may be a key place to look.
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December 10, 2025
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn't start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)
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December 7, 2025
Why is my dog like this? Current DNA tests won’t explain it to you.
Dog behavior is a lot more complicated than any one gene variant.
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