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3w ago

Study Says 'Hobbits' Scavenged Komodo Dragon Kills, Not Big-Game Hunters

Taphonomic experiments and systematic bone analyses find no reliable evidence of fire use and indicate Homo floresiensis mainly accessed meat left by Komodo dragons, forcing a reappraisal of its behavior and ancestry.

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last mo.

New Evidence Suggests Hominins Used Fire in Wonderwerk Cave 1.07–1.8 Million Years Ago

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2mo ago

140,000-Year-Old Skhul Child Shows Mixed Traits, Pointing to Early Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding

Hominins

Study Says 'Hobbits' Scavenged Komodo Dragon Kills, Not Big-Game Hunters

New Evidence Suggests Hominins Used Fire in Wonderwerk Cave 1.07–1.8 Million Years Ago

Neanderthals Planned Seasonal Shellfish Harvests 115,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

Study Traces Mosquitoes’ Human-Biting Origin to Early Hominins in Sundaland

Oldest Elephant-Bone Tool in Europe Identified at Boxgrove

New Analysis Points to Bipedal Sahelanthropus 7 Million Years Ago

Neanderthals Crafted Crayon-Like Ochre Tools in Crimea and Ukraine, Study Finds

140,000-Year-Old Skhul Child Shows Mixed Traits, Pointing to Early Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding