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The article focuses on a significant donation of ancient Brazilian fossils to the National Museum of Brazil, devastated by a fire in 2018, highlighting the collaborative effort between private collectors and public institutions to rebuild and preserve the country's natural heritage.

2022 AUG 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- Investigators publish new report on earth sciences. According to news originating from Kunming, People's Republic [...]

The article focuses on the debate and controversy surrounding claims of cannibalism in human prehistory. Topics include the challenges of identifying cannibalism based on bone marks, the history of skepticism and debate on the subject, and the emerging evidence of cannibalistic practices among early hominids and Neanderthals.

2020 OCT 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- Current study results on Science - Earth Science have been published. According to news originating [...]

Discusses the implication of the discovery of the Floresians or the miniature people believed to have lived in the Indonesian island of Flores on the existing views about human evolution. Problems encountered by paleoanthropologists in explaining the presence of the Floresians; Characteristics of the Floresians; Habits and behavior of the miniature people.

A report in August that the early ancestors of humans used stone tools to butcher meat at least 3.4 million years ago is being challenged by other researchers, who say [...]

Scientists have determined that human fossils found in Ethiopia in 1967 are 195,000 years old, 65,000 years older than first thought. The revised date, they said, makes the skulls and […]

The article reports that a research published in Scientific Reports that offers clues to better understanding how the feet of birds and their extinct relatives have changed over time.

The article focuses on the report of a group of paleoanthropologists regarding the fourth individual of the Denisovans discovered for her molar.

The article discusses problems faced by paleoanthropologists that face a "dark age" of missing fossil evidence from the period spanning roughly two to three million years ago. Lack of fossil evidence has impaired scientists attempting to trace the origins of the genus of Homo, or modern day Homo sapiens. Finds for other hominids exists from remains related to the genuses Paranthropus and Australopithecus.

The borna virus is at once obscure and grotesque. It can infect mammals and birds, but scientists know little about its effects on its victims. In some species it seems to be harmless, but it can drive horses into wild fits. The horses sometimes kill themselves by smashing in their skulls. In other cases, they starve themselves to death. Some scientists have even claimed that borna viruses alter human behavior, playing a role in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, although others say there is no solid evidence of a link. The virus is now turns out to have an intimate bond with every person on Earth. In the latest issue of Nature, a team of Japanese and American scientists report that the human genome contains borna virus genes. The virus infected our monkey-like ancestors 40 million years ago, and its genes have been passed down ever since. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that archaeologists have assigned skeletons of miniature people excavated from a limestone cave on Flores, an island east of Bali as the new human species of Homo floresiensis. Research on how the Floresians lived on the island until at least 13,000 years ago and were a downsized version of Homo erectus; Consideration of how the discovery indicates that archaic humans survived longer than modern people; Reference to the evolutionary forces which propelled the ancient humans toward giantism; Survival of the carnivorous lizards that reached Flores, which are now confined to the nearby island of Komodo; Impact of the findings on the field of paleoanthropology.

Focuses on paleoanthropologist Dr. Ian Tattersall and his composite reconstruction of a full Neanderthal skeleton based on fossils. Comments of Tattersall, who assembled the skeleton at New York City's American Museum of Natural History; Key anatomical differences between the Neanderthal skeleton and modern humans; Plans to display the skeleton in an exhibit in January 2003; Background on these prehistoric people; Misunderstandings concerning Neanderthals.

Reports that scientists have discovered six fossils from the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, in the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. Significance of the discovery; Implications for the model of human origins; Features of the skull which differ from apes; Idea that the fossil, nicknamed Toumaï, is the oldest member of the family of man.