Prehistoric- Neanderthals, cavemen, dinosaurs

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2022)

Why trading fossils is good for science. The market for specimens should be regulated, not banned. A thriving market for fossils should lead to mo... (2023)

Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins (2022)

The museum is giving its ancient animals a modern makeover. (2018)

These new details about how the climate could have dramatically changed following the impact of a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid will be published Aug.... (2017)

People have always known of dinosaurs, though they have called them by many names. Old legends that place Western dragons in caves… (2018)

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of coloss... (2018)

Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)

It led to an explosion of interest in dinosaurs, and by extension, people interested in researching them (2018)

The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists. (2017)

Experts say the art, found in an Indonesian cave, could be the world's oldest recorded story. (2019)

Inside the pitfalls of illustrating prehistoric creatures. (2017)

The Jiangxi province is known for its prehistoric fossils and has been described as the 'hometown of dinosaurs'. (2017)

Encounters with Denisovans have left their mark on the genome. (2018)

" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)

TED, 2015: “Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully d... (2017)

The long read: In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating ... "Today, almost a cen... (2019)

Yep, brains are shrinking. I don’t mean to alarm you, but the average human brain size is shrinking. And we can’t blame reality T.V. or Twitter.... (2021)

A recent genetic association study1 identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for respiratory failure upon SARS-CoV-2 infection. A ... (2020)

Get this: The renowned paleontologist who inspired 'Jurassic Park' is attempting to recreate dinosaurs by reversing the evolution of the modern-day... (2019)

How accurate were the Jurassic Park Dinosaurs? These movies often receive harsh criticism for their inaccuracies. We provide a modern scientific pe... (2020)

Despite many pop culture and museum depictions, no one knows for sure what dinosaurs looked like. So artists make informed guesses based on modern ... (2020)

In many ways, the last surviving Neanderthals are a mystery. But four caves in Gibraltar have given an unprecedented insight into what their lives ... (2020)

Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call "ghost" DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehis... (2020)

A 210,000-year-old skull is the oldest Homo sapiens fossil found outside Africa. Apidima 1 Is the Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa... (2019)

The origin of species is more complex than Darwin envisaged (2020)

The skeleton is still far from complete but paleontologists say what they've found suggests the dinosaur may be more than 120 feet long (2021)