Indonesia believes that this act of cultural justice is not just about returning the objects themselves but also about ...

How do we know when they lived? Estimating the age of hominid fossils is usually a painstaking, two-part process, involving both "absolute" and "relative" dating. "Absolute" dating means finding a ...

Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study, revealing new details about mumification ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

In the latest Sustainability Landscape report, we highlight a couple of types of sustainable funds that specifically contribute to climate action: fossil-fuel-free and low carbon. Here ...

The features of this hominid were a combination of apelike and ... face with a narrow braincase and thick enamel. At least 400 fossil specimens represent Australopithecus afarensis.

Evidence of Cannibalism Found in Ancient Europe; Experts Reveal There Was 'Nutritional Exploitation of the Bodies' Recently researchers have found evidence indicating cannibalism in ancient Europeans.

Feb. 10, 2025 — Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

FOLLOWING the recovery of several fragments A of a very small adult skull of Sinanthropus from Locus I (Locality 1) in the latter part of our spring field season at Choukoutien, we had the good ...