Even older than the Great Pyramids of Giza. A human-shaped wooden idol decorated with an eerie human face and considered the oldest of its kind ever discovered may date back even further in time, researchers now say. Often called the Shigir Idol after the Shigir peat bog, where it was …
These tiny creatures existed during the early Cambrian. The oldest known cephalopod — part of the group that includes octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses — is more than half a billion years old, a new study suggests. The fossils date to the early Cambrian period and are about 522 million …
The extinct human lineage nicknamed “the hobbit” may not be a distant relative of modern humans as previously thought. Instead, hobbits may be members of the mysterious close relatives of modern humans known as Denisovans, and may have interbred with ancestors of modern humans on the islands of Southeast Asia, …
