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Sep 18, 2018 · March 18, 2024. This month, scientists published their discovery of 73,000-year-old cross-hatchings found in a South African cave. It's now the earliest known drawing and evidence of early...
Sep 15, 2021 · At the time, 150 years ago, Darwin had little fossil evidence to draw from. A handful of Neandertal bones had been found in Europe, but experts disagreed about whether they came from an ancient...
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Jan 14, 2021 · Photograph by Illustration by Mauricio Anton. The oldest sample clocked in at least 50,000 years old. The youngest appeared to be just shy of 12,000 years old, suggesting that some dire wolves overlapped with grey wolves, coyotes, dholes, gray foxes, and perhaps early humans.
Jul 14, 2009 · By Michael Marshall. 14 July 2009 , updated 27 April 2023. Galapagos tortoises are the product of over 3 billion years of evolution. Andy Rouse / Getty. There are all sorts of ways to reconstruct...
Aug 13, 2018 · Charles Darwin himself suggested (first in an early notebook, later in “On the Origin of Species”) that the history of life could be drawn as a tree — all creatures originating in a single...
Mar 4, 2024 · Scientists can use DNA to trace the history of evolution from modern plants and animals all the way back to the earliest single-celled organisms. But what came before that remains unclear....
Jan 24, 2014 · The earliest evidence for life on Earth resides in 3.8-billion-year-old rocks from the Archean eon. This evidence, plus younger traces of life described below, suggest that the first cells...