Nine toppled megaliths in Dartmoor, England, were aligned to the rising of the midsummer sun and the setting of the midwinter sun, and may have been used to mark time. Peat taken from above and below the stones allowed scientists to date them to 3500 B.C. The Dartmoor stones could be older than Stonehenge, and […]

A new species of Australopithecus has been discovered in South Africa. The fossilized bones of the juvenile male and adult female share a mix of primitive features of ape-like Australopithecines and more advanced genus Homo fossils. But is Australopithecus sediba really an ancestor of modern humans? “As in most matters to do with interpretation of […]