July 2026

New fossil discoveries at Gran Dolina cave in northern Spain show that cannibalism practised by an ancient human relative called Homo antecessor was not limited to children, as earlier evidence had suggested. Researchers recovered two dozen bones and teeth belonging to this now extinct species, which lived in Europe between roughly 1.2 million and 770,000…

There are no limits to a human’s materialistic wants and emotional feelings. Attachment is the quickest development to happen and the slowest to recede. This is possibly why archaeologists in El Salvador found a 2,800-year-old burial of a person clutching a sea turtle vessel.The Mesoamerican burial found a face-down human skeleton that may be from…

Far out in the western Pacific, in a chain of islands that form part of United States territory, sits Pagan, one of the most active volcanoes in the entire Mariana Islands arc. The island was completely evacuated in 1981 after a major eruption forced its small community to flee, and it has remained largely uninhabited…

PC: Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Long before stone tools or bones tell their part of the story, footprints can preserve something far more immediate. They capture movement rather than anatomy, recording where an individual walked, how they placed their feet, and sometimes who was travelling beside them. A newly described set of fossil footprints from northern…