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The first dogs evolved from wolves in Asia — and maybe the Middle East — a study of ice age DNA suggests
Ancient wolf DNA spanning the last 100,000 years, points to the moment — possibly two moments — whe…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Yves Coppens, paleontologist who discovered 3.2 million-year-old 'Lucy' skeleton, dead at age 87
Yves Coppens helped discover the skeletal remains of "Lucy," which showed that human ancestors walk…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A 16-year-old girl killed in a shark attack was swimming in a river, not the ocean. Bull sharks — considered by some experts the most dangerous — are the rare species that swims in fresh water.
Stella Berry was attacked by what officials believe was a bull shark, which have been recorded swim…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Footprints In The Mud Of Time Indicate Early Humans Treaded European Shores
In case you are curious, let us tell you these foot sizes match the modern shoe sizes of 7 or 8 in …
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What to know about H5N1 bird flu in humans as a girl dies in Cambodia and her father tests positive
The strain of bird flu that killed the girl, H5N1, can transmit between humans but it's rare, exper…
Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Scientists have now sequenced ancient herpes DNA from the rotting teeth of human remains
Researchers compared ancient herpes DNA to modern-day samples. The virus may have flourished when k…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Omicron's 'wacko' combination of mutations has scientists split over whether it developed in humans or animals
The Omicron variant may have emerged in an immunocompromised host, but scientists haven't ruled out…
Aria Bendix,Marianne Guenot,H…
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A conservationist who saved 2 species - a parrot and a rare palm tree - was murdered by gangs in Colombia
Gonzalo Cardona Molina's work brought the yellow-eared parrot back from the brink of extinction, hi…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Early human ancestors started migrating around the world far earlier than scientists thought
"The initial dispersals out of Africa prior to 60,000 years ago were likely by small groups of fora…
Kevin Loria
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Research on human-cat link on ancient Silk Road
New Delhi, July 10 (IANSlife) In some news for cat lovers, new analyses done on an almost-complete …
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By 2045, Physicist Says 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans'
"It won't be the 'Terminator' scenario, not a war," said Del Monte. "In the early part of the post-…
Dylan Love
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Blinken says China 'didn't do what it needed to do' in the early stages of the pandemic
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US needs to "fully understand what happened in order to …
Connor Perrett
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The remains of a new species of human have been found in a South African cave
Physically, the species shares similarities with both modern day humans and its earlier ancestors. …
Associated Press,Charles Clark
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Doctors use gene-editing to try and cure blindness for the very first time
It’s too early to determine whether the treatment is working or not. The doctors estimate that…
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Coronavirus may have silently existed in China as early as last October: Study
"What unchained the epidemic is the simultaneous occurrence of two major celebrations in the same …
PTI
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400,000 people are infected each year with coronaviruses carried by bats, an early study suggests. Researchers say the data could help prevent future pandemics.
Researchers said that the data could help prevent future pandemics caused by viruses that spread fr…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Scientists created a hybrid human-monkey embryo in a lab, sparking concerns others could take the experiment too far
The embryos were made by injecting human stem cells into macaque embryos as part of research into e…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Ancient tools and DNA discovered in a Tibetan cave shed unprecedented light on humans' most enigmatic ancestor, the Denisovans
Anthropologists found an ancient jawbone, tools, and DNA in a Tibetan cave. They come from Denisova…
Aylin Woodward
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This Is What The Early Human Rewriting Evolutionary History May Have Looked Like
Researchers believe all five skulls come from the same Homo species, even though the creatures that…
Dina Spector
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A 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece is the oldest modern human discovered outside of Africa. It changes our timeline of human migration.
The oldest evidence of our modern human ancestors (Homo sapiens) dates back 315,000 years and was f…