New research explores whether rock art acts as a time capsule for its creators' DNA. By analyzing pigment samples from 24 panels across Spain and Portugal, researchers found human DNA traces persisting on cave walls for thousands of years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A warmer ocean has wide-ranging impacts. ⬆️ ocean temperatures, keep the atmosphere warm longer, provide ➕energy to storms & ⬆️ evaporation, thus enhancing the potential for extreme precipitation and flooding, sea level ⬆️ & ice melt, & stresses marine ecosystems. climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-m...

This has got to be the weirdest human evolution story I've ever covered. I'm still baffled -- yes, baffled -- by these results. 🏺🧪

Nice summary of our recent paper on the brain of Homo naledi www.iflscience.com/homo-naledis...

The findings suggested that inbreeding – often cited as a key culprit of Neanderthal decline – was not much of a problem in this population. By all accounts, the population had a healthy, well-connected gene pool.

For much of the past century, fossils from East Africa have shaped our understanding of ape evolution. Now, a jawbone found in the Egyptian desert adds a new dimension to that story. Image Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam thedebrief.org/a-single-jaw... #fossils #paleontology

Rare Neanderthal baby remains reveal growth patterns similar to modern humans and signs of metabolic disease archaeologymag.com/2026/06/nean...

Frozen Greenland middens preserved detectable human- and animal-associated bacterial signals for centuries. For now, thawing sites appear to pose little public-health risk because those microbes do not seem to spread far.

Baby sandhill cranes called colts take approximately 65 to 75 days from hatching to grow their feathers and make their first flight in their awkward stage they practice preflight training by energetically flapping their wee wings, and doing practice hops.

Chimpanzees react negatively to unfairness, especially when close partners are nearby phys.org/news/2026-06...

Four days of extreme rain in Indonesia killed 7% of world’s rarest great apes, study finds www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

​A rare and well-preserved Iron Age discovery at Loch Borralie in Sutherland, Scotland, has revealed evidence of complex postmortem skeletal modification, showing that an adult female's brain was extracted and her long bones were precisely sharpened into tool-like points.

Ay caramba! The concavity in Chagyrskaya 64 is indicative of the earliest documented instance of caries treatment involving the drilling/rotating with a lithic perforator, ca. 59 ka. Earliest evidence for invasive mitigation of dental caries by Neanderthals🏺🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Dr Lemoine's research on inter-group conflicts in primates is now featured by The Observer observer.co.uk/news/science... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social #chimpanzees #warfare #xenophobia

Why Do Humans Have Clear White Eyes While Most Apes Have Dark Ones? www.zmescience.com/feature-post...

110,000-year-old discovery rewrites human history: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens worked together www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

500 Million Years Ago, Life Changed Forever: Scientists Reveal the DNA Changes That Helped Animals Move Onto Land scitechdaily.com/500-million-...

After Nearly 80 Years of Doubt, Scientists Say a Spear Lodged Between Elephant Ribs Offers Evidence That Neanderthals Hunted Big Game www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

JUST IN: Scientists built bacteria that EATS cancer from the inside out. The future of cancer treatment isn't a drug. It's a living organism that devours tumors from the inside. Here's how it works:

Entire Human Populations Vanished 3,000 Years Ago. Scientists Figured Out Where They Went. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

Native Americans Were Making And Using Dice Thousands Of Years Before The Old World "Invented" Them www.iflscience.com/its-somethin...

Researchers Have Uncovered a Missing Piece in Life’s Origin Story scitechdaily.com/researchers-...