A new report by an international team of researchers in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science has shown that the last of Mongolian giant camels may have coexisted with the much smaller wild Bactrian camel (Camel ferus) and ancient hominins until 27,000 years ago. And by ancient hominins the study suggests Homo sapiens and maybe […]
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Early Hominins Competed with Saber-Toothed Cats 2 Million Years Ago
Homo erectus , literally upright man, is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, first occurring 2 million years ago, and is widely identified as the first recognizable members of the genus Homo. In 2019, at the site called Orozmani, in Georgia, sustained excavation work and research has revealed artifacts and the fossilized […]
Study: How Pleistocene Hominins Crossed The Seas A Million Years Ago
A team of German and Spanish researchers has published a new computational model demonstrating how Pleistocene hominins crossed the sea and sea straits between one and two million years ago. Pleistocene hominins occupied Flores about 850,000 years ago. This means the technological, cultural and cognitive development required to have travelled across Eurasia was present in […]