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Numerous dinosaur eggs have been found in Shiyan, China, but their age has been unknown until now.Credit: Dr. Bi Zhao
18 SEP 2025 · 3 MIN

Revolutionary Laser Method Reveals Age of Chinese Dinosaur Eggs for First Time

Fossil hunters struck gold in China’s Hubei Province, where ancient dinosaur eggs have finally revealed their true age through groundbreaking scientific techniques. For the first time in paleontological history, researchers have successfully…

Behold the Dragon Man – not a dragon, a Denisovan. Source: CC BY 4.0
7 JUL 2025 · 3 MIN

True Identity of ‘Dragon Man’ Confirmed: Northeast China Denisovan

At long last, scientists have confirmed the true identity of the remarkably intact skull nicknamed “Dragon Man.” Unearthed in Harbin, Northeast China, the skull was initially proposed as a separate species back…

The Huns, Georges Rochegrosse, 1910. Source: Georges Rochegrosse / Public Domain.
26 FEB 2025 · 4 MIN

The Origin of the Huns: Revealing the Truth Behind a Legend

The Huns, according to ancient sources, came out of nowhere. But then, these ancient sources were largely Roman and, as far as the Romans were concerned, the Huns really did. They first…

The four east Asian homo species in the reclassification and their locations. Homo juluensis on the left is new. Source: C Bae and X Wu; Nature Communications.
3 DEC 2024 · 3 MIN

Homo Juluensis: “Bigheads” Join the Growing List of Proto-Humans

Something new in the field of paleoanthropology: researchers have discovered a new species of human. Well, not human exactly but a close relative of Homo sapiens, which has been named Homo juluensis…

Header Image: The North Face of Everest. The route, in green, that Mallory and Irvine would have taken to reach the top of Everest. The question mark notes the second step which is believed by many to have defeated them. Marker No. 1 is where Mallory’s body was found in 1999. Source: Luca Galuzzi / CC BY-SA 2.5. Insert: Andrew Irvine (1902-1924) during his college years at Merton (Oxford) (public domain)
11 OCT 2024 · 2 MIN

Mallory’s Mystery Solved? Remains of Sandy Irvine found on Everest

On 29 May 1953 Mount Everest was officially summited for the first time. The climbers, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, entered the history books for their achievement, something nobody had managed before.…