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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...

A jumble of bones and teeth confirms two species of human ancestor lived side by side over 3.3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar Rift. This is the first clear evidence that these ancient relatives ...

Scientists have identified a new crocodile precursor that looked deceptively dinosaur-like and hunted with speed and precision. Named Tainrakuasuchus bellator, the armored “warrior” lived 240 million ...

The First Descendant’s recent update added Ancestor modules in the game. They are a new type of Transendant mods that allow you to stack multiple effects into one. Using one can help you prevent ...

Ancestor modules are the latest chase items in The First Descendant. They are character-specific mods that allow you to have custom stats on them, making your characters even stronger. Using them can ...

Over millennia, people have selectively bred the sugarcane plant to optimize the crop’s taste, yield and ease of cultivation. Now researchers have uncovered a sweet surprise: by refining the history ...

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A team of scientists claim that they have identified a new “ancient human ancestor” in Africa, which is causing quite a stir. The so-called Homo bodoensis lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

This week, we're bringing you a special episode from our play cousins over at the podcast "Our Ancestors Were Messy." We hear about how Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes went from being best ...

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