New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for…
These tools used by an extinct ancestor of modern-day humans and found in a cave in Poland have been dated back half a million years. The impressive discovery was made at the Tunel Wielki cave in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, with experts saying that the discovery challenges…
Firefighters were called into a hospital to cut off a penis ring after emergency doctors were unable to remove it. The unusual rescue occurred at the Alvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in the city of Vigo, located in the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia, on the evening of Monday, 24th August. A…
A passerby has incredibly survived after a spanner that was dropped by a worker installing an air-conditioning unit on a nearby high-rise building embedded itself in his skull. The man collapsed to the ground but was still conscious after he was hit by the workman's tool in Shenyang, capital of…
Archaeologists have found ancient tools which they say for the first time in history prove human beings and their ancestors have had a continuous presence in Europe going back 1.2 million years. The tools were discovered at the Gran Dolina dig site, within the important archaeological area of Atapuerca, located…
