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Scientists Hope This Tool Could Identify Tiny Fossils on Mars, Revealing Hints to Potential Early Life on the Planet
If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...
Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them
A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...
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Discovery of 1.5-Million-Year-Old Bone Tools Rewrites Early Human History
The development of tool technology is considered a pivotal step in human evolution. Deliberately shaped stones are thought to ...
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Tiny Human Relatives Walked Upright 2 Million Years Ago, World-First Fossil Find Reveals
Ahipbone from Paranthropus robustus, a species of hominin thought to have lived alongside our direct ancestors, has revealed ...
Prehistoric bone tool cache suggests advanced reasoning in early hominins
Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...