Freeze 'condemned Neanderthals'
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Climate change could have been the killer blow that finished off the Neanderthals, according to a study.
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people - a surprising new human species â-hat paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
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The case isn't closed yet, but modern humans are looking awfully guilty in one of the biggest whodunits in prehistory: the case of the demise of the Neanderthals.
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Exploding through the newsnets is the discovery of the remains of seven members of a tiny, previously unknown human species that survived until at least 13,000 years ago, and perhaps co-existed with modern humans right up to the present day.  Adult Homo Florensiensis, nicknamed "Hobbits" by the dig workers who helped uncover the remains at the Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, were about the size of a three-year-old modern human child, but had a brain one-third the size. Stone tools and pygmy elephant bones found at the site indicate that these "Hobbits" hunted co-operatively together in groups, meaning that they must have had language. "The whole idea that you need a particular brain size to do anything intelligent is completely blown away by this find," commented Dr Henry Gee of Nature magazine to the BBC.
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Archaeologists believe they have solved the longstanding mystery of how Otzi, the world's most famous iceman, met his end.
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New findings suggest that some Neanderthals were fair-skinned and redheaded.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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NEW YORK -- Were these the last Neanderthals? Small bands of them took refuge occasionally in a massive cave near the southern tip of Spain. Now a study says charcoal from their fires indicates that Neanderthals were still alive at least 2,000 years later than scientists had firmly established before.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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Berkeley - A University of California, Berkeley, paleobiologist and his colleagues warn that the future of the Earth&#39;s mammals could be as dire as it was between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, when a combination of climate change and human pressure resulted
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Campaigners for animal rights condemn the desecration of a grave in which a woman's remains were stolen.
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Ice can be loaded with dirt and, by consequence, fragments of ancient DNA that have been preserved by the cold.
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Brain strain Another salvo has been fired in the row over whether the remains of the Indonesian "Hobbit" people actually represent a separate species, or just malformed Homo sapiens.â¦
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The ammonia and crystalline ice would be destroyed in about 10 million years,&quot; Jewitt says. &quot;This implies Quaoar gets recoated on that time scale or faster.
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Archeologists are at odds over the discovery of the skeleton of a dwarf-sized human species on the remote island of Flores, which is said could rewrite the history of human evolution.
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Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at a British university said Wednesday.
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Foreign Corresp. European scientists have recovered ice which is 900,000-years-old, the oldest ever found, in the Antarctic during research into the continent's climate.