The Oldest Hominin Molecules Yet: Paranthropus robustus Tooth Enamel Gives Up Its Proteins
From four teeth about two million years old, found in the Swartkrans cave in South Africa, a University of Copenhagen team has managed to s…
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From four teeth about two million years old, found in the Swartkrans cave in South Africa, a University of Copenhagen team has managed to s…
Read →Found in 1924, the Taung Child skull, the type specimen of Australopithecus africanus, may be older than long assumed. Francis Thackeray an…
Read →Found in 1990 in Hubei, crushed and long filed by default among Homo erectus, the Yunxian 2 skull has now been digitally reconstructed. Des…
Read →For the first time, a hip bone, a femur and a tibia still joined together from a single Paranthropus robustus have been freed from the Swar…
Read →For fifteen years, the Denisovans were a people of ghosts, known from DNA but almost faceless. In October 2026, a team led by Qiaomei Fu, i…
Read →In Ethiopia's Afar Depression, the very beds that yielded Lucy have now produced a new crocodile, Crocodylus lucivenator. Four metres long …
Read →Near Haifa, a cave sealed for hundreds of thousands of years has yielded handaxes, scrapers and animal bones from a human group that lived …
Read →Deep in a South African cave lie some twenty individuals of an extinct, tiny-brained humanity. Analysis of their proteins has just delivere…
Read →The deformed skull of a prehistoric girl, unearthed in Spain, bears the mark of a rare malformation. That she lived to 8 or 10 suggests her…
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