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ANCIENT VOLCANOES MAY HAVE REWRITTEN THE STORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
Did violent volcanic eruptions create modern humans? A landmark 2016 study linking the East African Rift Valley to Homo sapiens around 300,000 years ago says they may haveDid violent volcanic eruptions create modern humans? New science says yes. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, massive eruptions shook the ...
At Kenya’s Lake Turkana, 21 ancient footprints from 1.43 million years ago don’t fit the known hominins, and the size clues point in two directionsThe unveiling of 1.43 million-year-old fossilized footprints near Lake Turkana, Kenya, has left researchers in a conundrum. The prints do n...
Psychology says people who constantly look for signs from the universe are just trying to make sense of the uncertain worldPeople who frequently look for signs from the universe are engaging in normal mental processes that help humans understand uncertainty and ...
Jurassic Sharks on Shark Week 2026: When and where to watch the prehistoric special in the US and UK without a cable subscriptionJurassic Sharks Sharks Week: Shark Week 2026 is taking viewers back to the age of prehistoric predators with "Jurassic Sharks." 'Shark Week...
1,700 years buried and forgotten: Archaeologists find thousands of coins stashed in clay jars under an ancient French homeArchaeologists in France just pulled out over 40,000 ancient coins from three clay pots hidden under someone's living room floor. And the s...
Musango matusadonaensis: 210-million-year-old dinosaur challenges what scientists knew about ancient AfricaA new dinosaur species, Musango matusadonaensis, was discovered in Zimbabwe approximately 210 million years ago. This early sauropodomorph ...
KILAUEA VOLCANO LIVE STREAMING: Episode 52 eruption sends 300-foot lava fountains into the skyHawai'i's Kilauea volcano has begun its 52nd eruptive episode with lava fountaining. The eruption started within Halema'uma'u Crater, reach...
Quote of the Day by Homer from The Odyssey: ‘Men are so quick to blame the gods...’ — Meaning and interpretationHomer's ancient epic The Odyssey inspires readers globally and has seen renewed interest. A successful film adaptation has introduced the l...
Hidden for over a century, these Egyptian princesses may have been elite warriors, according to their 4,000-year-old bonesForgotten for a century inside a Cairo museum basement, 4,000-year-old royal bones are rewriting ancient Egyptian history. Historians long ...
40,000 years ago, our closest ancient human relatives did something that changed the manifestation of relationship, bonding foreverKiss may last only a moment, but its evolutionary history could span millions of years. That simple gesture—today associated with love, fri...
Scientists unlocked a 4,000-year-old secret inside ancient human teeth. A woman’s clean smile in Thailand revealed surprising chemical proof of early betel nut chew habitsNew chemical analysis of ancient dental plaque from a burial site in Thailand revealed preserved traces of betel nut alkaloids. Remarkably,...
In 2007, scientists found giant underwater domes off California; the truth was stranger than anyone expectedMysterious underwater domes off California were identified as ancient asphalt volcanoes. These formations originated from hardened crude oi...
Nature's first cat! Every time your cat purrs, it echoes 30-million-year-old legacy that began with predator scientists call the world's first true catFirst Cat Proailurus: Long before modern cats evolved, an ancient feline called Proailurus roamed the forests of Europe and Asia around 30 ...
Humans have a 'third eye' in the brain: Study links it to a 600-million-year-old Cyclops ancestorHumans cyclops connection: Scientists claim our eyes and even a hormone-regulating gland in our brain trace back to a bizarre, one-eyed sea...
To create a 'New Soviet Man,' the Bolshevik government in 1926 funded a Russian biologist's quest to create a human-ape hybrid; instead, it produced one of science's strangest scandalsIn 1926, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanov attempted to create a human-ape hybrid in French Guinea. This controversial experiment aimed to provi...
Centuries Ago, a Hidden Catastrophe Shaped One of America's Most Dangerous Volcanoes That Still Matters TodayMount Rainier remains one of America's most iconic mountains, attracting hikers, climbers and nature lovers from around the world. Yet its ...
Proverb of the day: 'When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets...' Life lessons from inspirational proverb on tunnel vision, immediate desires, looming threats and bigger pictureProverb of the day highlights the saying, "When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that's hunting him." The proverb teaches...
Quote of the day by Alexander the Great: ""Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite..." A life lesson on the limits of ambitionQuote of the Day: Alexander the Great's quote highlights immense ambition and human desire. This saying, preserved by Plutarch, reflects hi...
Psychology says your brain craves gossip for a surprising reason and it may have helped you to survivePsychology says the brain craves gossip because humans are naturally curious about other people and the social world around them. At the sa...
Scientists reexamined a 100,000-year-old human skull and found the victim had likely been stabbed in the face with a stone toolA 100,000-year-old skull from Qafzeh Cave shows a healed jaw cut. Researchers used advanced technology to analyze the ancient bone. This in...