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in 2017, Jean-Jacques Hublin discovered Homo sapiens fossils that pushed back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. Now, in a new book, The Tyranny of the Brain, the French paleoanthropologist traces the evolution of our brains since the emergence of Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago.
Updated August 12, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. The largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton, named “Sue,” was found on this day in 1990, in South Dakota, United States, on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Who discovered the T-Rex skeleton? The T-Rex skeleton was discovered by Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist and fossil collector. She was part […]
Some 88% of fossils from the Araripe Basin northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s richest paleontological sites, are housed in foreign museums — a historical and cultural heritage Brazilian authorities and researchers are working to repatriate.
Unlike countries like the US or even China, India doesn’t have a national repository to store fossil finds.
In another possible sign of thaw after decades of chilly relations between the United States and Iran, the U.S. is set to return 1,500 fossil pieces to Iran that it has kept since the 1979 revolution, the reformist paper Shargh reported this week, citing comments by Iran’s chief environmental official Masoumeh Ebtekar. Ebtekar confirmed the […]