Archeology
The ambition to revive the extinct breed
Professor George Church from Harvard Medical School, believes that he could reconstruct the DNA of the ancient Neanderthals and revive the extinct breed 33,000 years ago.
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Detecting modern human individual fossils 40,000 years old
A relative from Tianyuan Cave: a human being who lived 40,000 years ago seems to be a relative of many Asians and native Americans today.
Archeology
The African tribe still lives like 44 thousand years ago
According to archaeological data, tribes in South Africa remained the same way of life 44,000 years ago.
Archeology
Prehistoric people painted animals more beautiful than modern people
A new study shows that prehistoric people living in caves draw four-legged animals better than today's artists.
Archeology
Find the ancestors of the planet's largest carnivores
Scientists have found fossils of a new shark that is believed to be the true ancestor of the white shark - the planet's largest predatory shark.
Archeology
The story of our ancestors' love with extinct people
The last mating between Neanderthals was extinct with modern people taking place from 47,000 to 65,000 years ago.
Archeology
Human bone detection dating to 12,000 years in Japan
Okinawa Prefectural Museum on October 19 revealed that human and animal bones and radiocarbon dating tools have been discovered for 12,000 years in a cave in Nanjo City,…
Archeology
Unearth Troy
Equipped with modern technology, a group of archaeologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) decided to launch a new poll in one of the most famous ancient…
Archeology
Humans know to eat plants from 180,000 years ago
Scientists believe that modern humans began to appear in Africa after genetic changes helped them to adapt to plant foods. This change makes modern humans can leave the…
Archeology
Found more than 40,000 years old skull in Laos
The skull fragments discovered by archaeologists in 2009 in a cave in Laos show that the early migration of modern humans took place 20,000 years earlier than previous r…
Archeology
Found fossils 500 million years of snail relatives
Fossils of a snail-like creature, living in the seabed 500 million years ago, have revealed light on the origin of modern snails, shellfish and squid species.
Archeology
Which hand is Neanderthal?
Most Neanderthals are right-handed like modern humans, and this shows the possibility
Archeology
Complete 'portrait' of a 50,000 year old girl
After analyzing the finger bone fragment gene of an ancient girl, Denisova's hair, skin and eyes were all brown. At the same time, scientists also shed light on genetic…
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Southeast Asia - the cradle of chickens
New England University experts at Armidale studied ancient DNA (called DNA mitochondria) in 48 ancient chicken bones and found similar traces present in chickens everywh…