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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Saami people, who are indigenous to Finland, speak a Uralic language. | Credit: Getty Images Present-day speakers of Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian have substantial Siberian ancestry, a new study of ancient genomes finds. These roots likely spread westward from a group of …

A groundbreaking study recently published in Comptes Rendus Géoscience has revealed the existence of ancient human migration routes submerged beneath the sea, shedding new light on how early humans traveled between Africa and Eurasia. The research, led by Professor Jerome Dobson from the University of Kansas, employed advanced sea-level reconstruction models to explore submerged landscapes that once served as vital …

Present-day speakers of Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian have substantial Siberian ancestry, a new study of ancient genomes finds. These roots likely spread westward from a group of people living in the forest steppes of the Altai Mountains of Central and East Asia 4,500 years ago. Ancient DNA revealed that this group was patrilineal, or organized based on descent from fathers. …

Archaeologists in Galicia, Spain, have uncovered a significant discovery: a trilobite fossil, millions of years old, transformed into a Roman-era amulet. The fossil, believed to have been used as a protective object, is an example of how ancient remains were repurposed by the Romans. Trilobites, now-extinct marine arthropods, lived long before the rise of the Roman Empire. According to Popular …

In an exciting paleontological breakthrough, researchers have uncovered the fossil of an extraordinary prehistoric snake, Vasuki indicus, which measured an astonishing 50 feet in length and likely weighed over 2,200 pounds. Found in the Panandhro Lignite Mine in Gujarat’s Kutch region, India, the fossil reveals a massive predator from the Middle Eocene period, about 47 million years ago. This discovery, …

Much of Earth’s ancient past lies beneath the sea. Professor Jerome Dobson of the University of Kansas coined the term “aquaterra” to describe now-submerged lands once inhabited by early humans who used them to migrate. These regions vanished as sea levels rose after the last ice age. In collaboration with Giorgio Spada of the University of Bologna and Gaia Galassi …

Despite what the movies tell us, dinosaurs probably didn’t roar at their prey. It’s more likely that they chirped like birds, based on a well-preserved new fossil with an intact voice box. A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered an almost-complete skeleton of a new dinosaur species in northeastern China. This two-legged, 72 centimeter (2.4 foot) …

Scientists have uncovered an extraordinary collection of half-a-billion-year-old fossils in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. The discovery is the first of its kind from the famous canyon and includes exquisitely preserved remains of ancient animals such as rock-scraping molluscs, filter-feeding crustaceans and toothed worms – as well as the food they likely consumed. The fossils date back to a key …

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Around 850,000 years ago, a toddler was decapitated and cannibalized, cut marks on one of their neck bones suggest. The bone, which belonged to an archaic human relative, was found at the Gran Dolina cave at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain. An analysis of the bone indicates that the child was between 2 and 5 years old …