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Some 400,000 years ago, in what is now eastern England, a group of Neanderthals used flint and pyrite to make fires by a watering hole — not just once, but time after time, over several generations. (Express Photo)

Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Fire-Making

December 12, 2025 9:21 am

“A lot of people had a hunch that they were making fire at this date,” said Nick Ashton, an archaeologist at the British Museum and an author of the study. “But now we can convincingly say, ‘Yeah, this was the case.’

The mystery of how anacondas became giant 12 million years ago and never needed to grow again

December 05, 2025 5:35 pm

The new study confirms that the evolutionary stability shown by anaconda is extremely rare

Telescopefish: Meet the supervillain lurking in the deepest part of the ocean

September 09, 2025 2:30 pm

In the darkest depths of the ocean, the eerie and elusive telescope fish thrives with alien-like eyes, extendable jaws, and a stealthy ambush game straight out of sci-fi.

In the Age of Tech, Social Sciences can help us see the future

July 08, 2025 12:32 pm

The real value of our models is not that they tell us about our past, but that they help us to read the signs and understand when the outwardly healthy systems we live in might actually be in distress. They serve as a compass helping us to project ahead and anticipate the future

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What bonobos can teach us: Make love, not war

April 16, 2025 5:52 pm

Humans' evolutionary cousins offer an alternative imagination of survival and being: Built on kindness, cooperation, communication

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The Third Edit: A new history of the human race, one footprint at a time

November 29, 2024 11:31 pm

Kenya’s findings can turn a page in our study of human evolution and ask an imperative question - which ‘fittest’ species survived?

New evidence suggests complex life on Earth may have begun 1.5 billion years earlier

July 30, 2024 5:08 am

This theory is controversial and not universally accepted. Most scientists currently believe that complex life began around 635 million years ago.

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Mark Zuckerberg and his fake facial hair are everywhere but why are we so fascinated?

April 28, 2024 5:46 pm

Arouba Kabir, emotional & mental health professional, and founder of Enso wellness, attempted to explain our seeming to-be never-ending fascination with Mark Zuckerberg's fake facial hair

A reconstruction of the fossil of a sabre-toothed tiger.

Mammals’ literal killer instinct drove evolutionary success, study suggests.

February 24, 2024 12:54 pm

Early mammals developed a literal "killer instinct" that helped their evolutionary success, suggests a new study.

Experts Explain | Darwin Day: How theories of evolution helped our knowledge of life on Earth

February 12, 2024 1:19 pm

This process of evolution by divergence has been operating for nearly 3.5 billion years across the Earth, resulting in the spectacular biodiversity that we see – both in fossil records (such as of dinosaurs) and in today’s living world. How has this knowledge helped us and what might we learn from it?