Early humans in the Kalahari were innovative
Inland Africa reveals ancient evidence of Homo sapiens innovation.
New archaeological evidence from Africa’s interior challenges notions that the emergence of Homo sapiens relied on ad...
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Machine learning reads Arnhem Land rock art
Computers compare minute style details.
What can machine learning tell us about the rock art in Arnhem Land? South Australian researchers, led by Daryl We...
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How to hunt fossils responsibly
5 tips from a professional palaeontologist.
By Kailah Thorn, EdCC Earth Science Museum Curator, University of Western Australia Many of us, at some point or a...
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Tightening the dragnet on Denisovans
AI tech tries to sniff out hidden signatures of ancient humans in modern DNA.
Researchers have identified some prime suspects in the biggest ‘who done it’ mystery in human evolution: who were the...
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How to survive a mass extinction
New study reveals how life on earth recovered after the most devastating mass extinction in geolo...
Life on earth has been assaulted multiple times over its long history, by vicious mass extinctions and crashes in bio...
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Rare bone tool artefact revealed
Discovery on the Murray gives insight into ancient Australia.
Analysis of a crafted bone point unearthed on Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia is shedding new light on the be...
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How a baby T-Rex bites
Researchers use 3D modelling to examine the jaws of different-sized tyrannosaurs.
Finite element analysis results for an adult Tyrannosaurus rex (FMNH PR 2081) jaw demonstrating a range of biting str...
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Pompeii of prehistoric plants
Excavating the ancestors of seed-bearing plants.
Nearly 300 million years ago, a volcanic eruption in northern China smothered a nearby swamp under half a metre of as...
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Co-evolution of humans and pathogens
Analysis of ancient skeletons suggests we adapt to pandemics.
Humans have lived through pandemics for centuries, and according to a reconstruction of ancient infectious diseases, ...
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Arrhenius takes the future’s temperature
Pioneering climate scientist Svante Arrhenius won the 1903 Nobel chemistry prize.
Each year the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences produces a commemorative booklet to pay tribute to “a per...
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Really ancient art
A kangaroo painting is now Australia’s oldest known rock art.
An image of a kangaroo has been identified as Australia’s oldest known rock painting, dated to over 17,000 years old....