Fossilized human hairs dating backbetween 195,000 and 257,000 years have been found in the poop of brown hyenas at Gladysvale cave in South Africa. According to Lucinda Backwell, who led the study, ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Published in the journal Geobiology, the study, "Mineralization controls informative biomarker preservation associated with soft part ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...