Read more about the article FUR BACK: Humans Have Been Using Bear Skins For At Least 300,000 Years, Says Study
Image shows an illustration of a cave bear, that could reach a length of more than three meters and a weight of more than one metric tonne during the ice ages, undated photo. During warm periods, as in Schoeningen, in Lower Saxony, Germany, they were somewhat smaller. (Benoit Clarys/Newsflash)
Archaeology

FUR BACK: Humans Have Been Using Bear Skins For At Least 300,000 Years, Says Study

Researchers have found out that humans have been using bear skins to protect themselves from cold weather conditions for at least 300,000 years. Image shows a metatarsal of a cave bear with cut marks, undated photo. Humans have been using bear skins to protect themselves from cold weather for at…

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December 28, 2022
Read more about the article Chunk Of DNA Inherited From Neanderthals Makes Humans More Likely To Get COVID But Less Likely To Get HIV
DNA analytics in the lab. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Newsflash)
Health

Chunk Of DNA Inherited From Neanderthals Makes Humans More Likely To Get COVID But Less Likely To Get HIV

A piece of DNA that many humans have inherited from the Neanderthals makes it more likely to get a serious bout of COVID-19 but 27 percent less likely to get HIV, scientists say. The study was conducted by Hugo Zeberg, age not reported, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden,…

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February 23, 2022
Read more about the article Hedgehogs Harbored Hospital Germs 100 Years Before Humans Discovered Antibiotics
A hedgehog, research shows a type of MRSA, that is an antibiotic-resistant superbug evolved as a result of fungus and bacteria on the skin of wild hedgehogs. (Newsflash)
Health

Hedgehogs Harbored Hospital Germs 100 Years Before Humans Discovered Antibiotics

A new study that involved an expert from the University of Cambridge has uncovered that hedgehogs harboured antibiotic-resistant bacteria - widely regarded these days as 'hospital germs' - 100 years before humans discovered antibiotics. The groundbreaking study has determined that antibiotic resistance is not just a modern phenomenon that can…

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January 7, 2022
Read more about the article Chimp Sent To Kenya To Learn To Be An Ape After Living Whole Life With Humans Is Killed By Fellow Chimpanzees
A four-year-old female chimpanzee named Baran at her farewell ceremony before she leaves the Eram zoo in Iran in July 2021. (Newsflash)
Animals

Chimp Sent To Kenya To Learn To Be An Ape After Living Whole Life With Humans Is Killed By Fellow Chimpanzees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjx9Bf7QPqQ A chimp that was sent to Kenya to learn how to be an ape after living its whole life with humans has been killed by fellow chimpanzees. The incident took place at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Kenyan county of Laikipia after the four-year-old female chimpanzee called Baran…

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December 27, 2021
Read more about the article Cave Find Suggests Humans Wore Necklaces 120K Years Ago
120,000 years ago inhabitants of Israel created necklaces. Unperforated shell from Misliya cave at 160,000 years ago or earlier (top), and perforated and ochre covered shell from Qafzeh cave dated to 120,000 years ago or younger (bottom). (Oz Rittner, The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History/Newsflash)
Archaeology / History

Cave Find Suggests Humans Wore Necklaces 120K Years Ago

Israeli archaeologists have found evidence that early humans wore shell necklaces painted with ochre as far back as 120,000 years ago. The discovery, which included several examples of ancient shell jewellery as well as dozens of human skeletons from the Mediterranean Paleolithic period, was made at Qafzeh Cave in northern…

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July 21, 2020