The Oldest Leech Ever Found Is Nothing Like Today’s Bloodsuckers

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.
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Out of Eden Walk: The origin story of the human species is still being written

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Oldest evidence of human fire-making unearthed in Britain

NICK ASHTON: We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. ROTT: Which would make the site ...
Natural History Museum

Earliest fire-making dating back 400,000 years unearthed in Suffolk, England

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...
The Mirror US on MSN

Oldest human footprints found after 115,000-year-old discovery in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert

Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle East, dating back approximately 115,000 years before the Ice Age ...
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Archaeologists uncover 115,000-year-old human footprints in unlikely location

Seven 115,000-year-old human footprints have been discovered, preserved in an ancient lakebed in Saudi Arabia.