The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Rethinking Australia’s Origins: When Did the First Humans Really Arrive?

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...
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The First Humans Were Hunted By Leopards, Scientists Have No Clue What These Marine “Y-Larvae” Grow Into, And Much More This Week

This week, scientists digging in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur that pushes back their emergence by 15 million years. We now have the first-ever full history ...
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Discovery of First Fossil Hand Linked to P. Boisei Suggests the Bygone Human Relative Could Have Used Tools

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...
New Scientist

Who were the first humans to reach the British Isles?

As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of ...

First known hand fossils of extinct human relative reveal ‘surprising’ features

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...
Ancient Origins

First Human Face Carved on Ancient T-Pillar Discovered at Karahantepe

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery at Karahantepe has shattered expectations about Neolithic symbolic expression, as researchers uncovered the first T-shaped pillar ever found with a distinctly ...
Forbes

First Mars Explorers Could Live Inside Lava Tubes Of Dormant Volcanos

Astronauts train to scale a Mars volcano at an analogue site in France. Lava tubes that crisscross the Martian surface might provide sanctuaries for the first human explorers on the Red Planet. (Photo ...