A skull found in Petralona Cave in Greece is at least 286,000 years old, revealing the existence of an ancient human species ...

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A groundbreaking discovery on the Isle of Skye has unearthed a 160-million-year-old fossil that could completely reshape our ...

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A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...

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A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...