Two pieces of preserved wood have been discovered at an archaeological site in Zambia that indicate that ancient humans had developed woodworking techniques to build structures nearly a half-million years ago, extending our use of this near-universal building technology to a point before modern humans even emerged. Made from theread more

The deeply ancient network of megalithic sites that includes both Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe that stretches across the southern portion of modern-day Türkiye now counts yet another of the suspected twelve sites amongst its number, Boncuklu Tarla, a site with buildings that may prove to be even older than the tworead more

There are certain segments of DNA that have remained relatively unchanged in the tens of millions of years since mammals split from their reptilian forebears— tried and true segments of code that remained unchanged throughout the course of mammalian evolution. However, roughly one million years ago a sudden change inread more