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The colorful Polycarpa aurata sits in a bed of white bryozoans (Triphyllozoon inornatum).

Unveiling the Power of Friction In A Marine Organism

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Researchers at ISTA's Heisenberg group have shed light on a remarkable phenomenon: how sea squirt oocytes utilize internal friction to jumpstart development after fertilization, a finding published in...

Homo neanderthalensis cranium (Tabun 1) © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

New fossil dating techniques change human evolution timeline

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New fossil dating techniques have been used that have changed the human evolution timeline from what we had previously thought.

A four by four vehicle with people in it and looking out of the sun roof. The vehicle is moving across the savannah with 5 impala in its path.

Human beings are now the biggest predator in the African Savannah

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Human beings are now the biggest predator in the African Savannah according to a new study. Animals are more afraid of humans than they are of lions.

Mummified remains of Iceman Otzi reclined on a white table.

Ötzi the Iceman looks very different from what we thought

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Ötzi the Iceman looks very different from what we thought. The over 5,000 year old mummy was darker and had Anatolean ancestory.

A cane toad on brown soil with some green grass to the right. Lucas van Oort on Unsplash

Should we change wild animals’ behaviour to save them?

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We see great value in conservation behavioral interventions, but also some challenges. We hope slowing down to consider the values at stake in conservation behavior interventions will help minimize ha...

AI generated image of human walking across African savannah with a stick in right hand. There is a round white sun in the background against an orange sky

First Humans Who Left Africa Were a Mix of Different Lineages

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A new study published in Nature by an international team of researchers suggests that humans were living in different regions of Africa, migrating from one region of the continent to the other and mix...

A Native American totem pole probably from the Pacific North West under a blue sky during the morning time. The Sun seems to be setting in the background. Photo by Ryan Stone on Unsplash

Some ancestors of Native Americans came from China

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A new study sheds new light on the prehistoric migration to the Americas suggesting that some of the first arrivals to the north and south America came from China during two distinct migrations. The f...

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We now have a genetics library that hopes to represent all of humanity

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A groundbreaking library has been created that represents all of humanity and will ensure that no genetic variations are left out.

Reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer associated with the Gravettian culture. A male human wearing fur clothes and shell necklace as well as a shell skull covering By Tom Bjoerklund

Ancient Hunter Gatherers in Europe did not die out during the last ice-age

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We thought the first hunter-gatherers in Europe went missing during the last ice age. Now, ancient DNA analysis says otherwise