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Ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in Saudi Arabia contain preserved DNA from the long-lost population

Cheetahs vanished from Saudi Arabia half a century ago. Now long-dead mummified big cats may help herald their return.
New York Post

Fossils tied to ancient African mammal highlight butt-dragging habit that persisted for generations

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...
CNN

Story of ‘first Black Briton’ rewritten by advances in ancient DNA technology

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...
The African Gourmet

Terraces Before Rockets: Indigenous African Farming and the Deep History of Resilient Agriculture

How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...
Live Science

World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our ...