Blasts from ancient supernovae may have led to humans walking upright
Approximately 8 million years ago, the Earth was bombarded with cosmic energy from supernovae, peaking approximately 2.6 million years ago. And that blast of energy...
Human Origins
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How the Mayan People Survived for Thousands of Years
We have all heard at least some of the histories of the Mayan culture unless, of course, you’ve been living under a rock. From the...
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Anthropologists learn that life was easier and bones were stronger when people were hunter-gatherers
We humans like to think that our civilization is advancing, but the ancient record doesn’t necessarily agree. For all our modern technology, longer lifespans, and...
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Montana man has the oldest North American DNA ever tested, dating back 17,000 years
At the urging of his brother Willy, Darrell “Dusty” Crawford of Heart Butte, Montana decide to get his DNA tested. A college project had allowed...
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Ancient ancestors may have committed cannibalism for profit
We all know that many species of our ancient ancestors were quite archaic, and did numerous things we might think of as wrong or “backward.”...
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The ancient Denisovans are cloaked in mystery but this fossil find is already changing that
The Tibetan plateau is home to Baishiya Karst Cave, a place long-revered by Tibetans who go there to pray or recuperate from illness. And the...
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Scientists Create DNA Molecule That Could Help Find Alien Life
Scientists are finally starting to think as scientists should in terms of alien life. As a result, they’ve synthesized an “artificial” molecular system that handles...
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NASA Scientists Recreate Origins of Life on Ocean Floor in the Lab with Surprising Results
The answer to the question of how life came into existence remains a scientific mystery to this day. While experts agree on prevailing theories, we...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks To Katy Perry About Aliens — And It Gets Weird Fast
Many think of alien talk as outside the realm of acceptability, but it’s picking up mainstream attention fast. Even people like pop star Katy Perry...
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Researchers Find The Remnants Of A Lost Ancient Metropolis In Africa
The remnants of a lost ancient city have been discovered by archaeologists in the outskirts of the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. What was once...
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Neanderthals Crafted Sophisticated Tools And Strategies That Allowed Them To Kill From A Distance
We aren’t talking about lasers, nuclear weapons, and guns, but scientists have recently demonstrated that Neanderthals were sophisticated enough to create advanced weapons that allowed...
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Is This Location Of The Real Garden Of Eden?
The Garden of Eden – paradise among paradises, home of the first people, Adam and Eve, who never had to want for anything until a...
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Why This Ancient Skeleton Is STILL Making Scientists Question Human Origins
A new scientific study suggests scientists may just have come across a new species of ancient humans. Meet ‘Little Foot,’ an ancient hominin believed to have...
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Corn: The Long And Winding Road To Domestication Includes Many Surprises
Scientists have long believed that farmers in southern Mexico first domesticated corn, otherwise known as maize, from teosinte, an ancient forbearer some 9,000 years ago...
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Life On Earth May Have Evolved Around 3.5 Billion Years Ago, Study Finds
In a recently published study by the Imperial College London, scientists have discovered that microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years...
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Paleolithic People Amputated Their Fingers In ‘Bizarre Religious Sacrifice’
Chopping off fingers was apparently a thing in Paleolithic societies. Scientists have recently revealed that Paleolithic people cut off their own fingers in part of...
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Life On Earth Probably Began Thanks To A ‘Modified’ Version Of Modern DNA
Understanding the origins of life, and why (so far) only Earth is home to nearly infinite forms of life is perhaps one of the greatest...
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Mysterious Human Species Lived in Tibet’s Highest Plateau Before Modern Man, 40,000 Years Ago
Scientists have discovered that a mysterious human species lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before modern humans. Not only does this prove that humans lived on...
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Archaeological Discovery In North Africa Changes The Human Origin Story, Again
Human evolution, origins, and history are ultimately a complex thing to understand. Evidence of that are the numerous discoveries made in the past century that...
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Historians Claim To Have Found The Remains Of Atlantis Near The Coast Of Spain
Are these the remnants of the legendary city of Atlantis? I have written plenty of times in the past about Atlantis, the mythical long-lost city-state...
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Out Of Africa Migration Occurred 100,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
As Graham Hancock would say, things just keep getting older. A new study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution by an international team led by...
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Scientists Find Oldest Weapons in America, Rewriting History Books
A team of scientists has discovered what are now considered to be the oldest weapons ever discovered in North America. The researchers came across ancient...