For what they were... we are

Credit: Image created by Ivana Semova, PhD Certain gut microbes, known as Firmicutes , whose abundance varies from individual to indivi...

From Not Exactly Rocket Science (via John Hawks' Weblog ): Every whale and dolphin evolved f rom a deer-like animal with slender,...

From The Heritage Journal : Henge to be tarmacked! When we say tarmacked we mean treated like Tarmac plc would – utterly destroyed f...

The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences continues producing interesting ne...

Peking Man (CC by Mutt) New craniometric research on the NE Asian Homo erectus (also known as Peking Man or Homo erectus pekinensis )...

Wartberg culture pottery (CC by Athinaios ) A new paper on ancient European mtDNA: Esther J. Lee et al., Collective burials among a...

Pileta de Prehistoria calls my attention to this beautiful figurine of an elk carved in amber found in a farm from Northern Germany (exa...