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First Photo of a Living, Newly Discovered Myanmar Monkey
In December 2011, the Guardian posted this note to go with what looked like a living photograph of the newly discovered snub-nosed monkey from Myanmar: “R. strykeri has not yet been photographed in...
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Human evolution ‘could have happened outside Africa too’, claim scientists
Most scientists believe that human beings evolved in Africa, then migrated from the continent to conquer the world. Professor Madelaine Bohme and geologist Philipe Havlik at the archeological site in a...
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‘Cat-Eye’ Boy Video Said To Show Chinese Child Who Sees In Dark
According to a news reel from China, a young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a Siamese cat’s, his sky-blue eyes flash neon green when illuminated by a flashlight, and his...
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Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors descent from the...
The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in trees to sleeping on the ground. While...
View ArticleWhat Darwin Didn’t Know
The theory of evolution by natural selection is now scientific orthodoxy, but when it was unveiled it caused a storm of controversy, from fellow scientists as well as religious people. They criticised...
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Ancient skeletons discovered in Georgia threaten to overturn the theory of...
For generations, scientists have believed Africa was the cradle of mankind. Now a stunning archaeological discovery suggests our primitive ancestors left Africa to explore the world around 800,000...
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Richard Leakey predicts evolution debate will soon be history
Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist...
View ArticleWhy do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use?
Why, after millions of years of evolution, do organisms build structures that seemingly serve no purpose? A study conducted at Michigan State University and published in the current issue of The...
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Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?
Humans have at least two functional networks in their cerebral cortex not found in rhesus monkeys. This means that new brain networks were likely added in the course of evolution from primate ancestor...
View ArticleIce tubes in polar seas provide clues to origin of life
Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice — sometimes called “sea stalactites” — that grow downward into cold seawater near Earth’s poles, scientists are...
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