Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing
The Adorant figurine, approximately 38,000 years old, consists of a small, ivory plate bearing an…
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Ancient Scottish Fossils Reveal a “Third Way” of Life in Earth’s Earliest Forests
Inside a chunk of ancient Scottish stone, a team of researchers has just upended 165…
Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes
Illustration of Haikouichthys, a fish from the Cambrian period, with a second pair of eyes…
Fossil analysis adds to debate over how earliest known hominin walked
Sahelanthropus fossils (centre) compared with a chimpanzee (left) and a human (right)Wiliams et al., Sci.…
Earliest Human Ancestor May Have Walked on Two Legs
January 2, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmEarliest Human Ancestor May Have Walked…
Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland’s earliest settlers
Historical accounts say Ingólfr Arnarson was the first Norse settler of Iceland, arriving in the…
Possible galaxy spotted by JWST could be the earliest we’ve ever seen
The possible galaxy in an image from the James Webb Space TelescopeNASA, ESA, CSA, CEERS,…
Earendel, farthest and earliest star ever seen, might not be what it seems
A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic objects allowed a space telescope…
Ancient rocks show earliest evidence of tectonic activity on Earth
The Pilbara craton in Western Australia is made up of some rocks that are 3.5…
Ancient Clay Cylinders Reveal Earliest Known Alphabet, Reshaping History of Written Communication
In a stunning archaeological find, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have unearthed what may be…