A new study, publisheed in PaleoAnthropology, shows that Amud 9 was a Neandertal woman weighing 60 kg who lived in the Late Pleistocene
The almost proverbial longtime obsession that American writers have always shown to have for writing the “Great American Novel” seems to have found its perfect embodiment in the finalist trio of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020
A genomic analysis in samples of Neanderthals and modern humans shows a decrease in ADHD-associated genetic variants
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired two important works by the Pakistani artist Lala Rukh: the collage Mirror Image, 1, 2, 3 (1997) and the digital animation Rupak (2016)
An ancient population of Arctic hunter-gatherers, known as Paleo-Eskimos, made a significant genetic contribution to populations living in Arctic North America today
A new tyrannosauroid dinosaur, Suskityrannus hazelae, was only marginally longer than the just the skull of a fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex
The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a trend that will have implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future
Callichimaera perplexa, earliest example of a swimming arthropod with paddle-like legs since the extinction of sea scorpions more than 250 million years ago
During the Great Depression, some unemployed Texans were put to work as fossil hunters. The fauna from the fossils make up a veritable “Texas Serengeti”
For the first time, a team of scholars and archaeologists has recorded and interpreted Cherokee inscriptions in Manitou Cave, Alabama