The eight-year study of the skull fossils found by an international team of scientists at a site in the medieval town of Dmanisi, in the Mashavera River Valley, Georgia in 2005 and reported this week in the Science journal was estimated to be 1.8 million years old. When compared to contemporary skulls, the skull fossils […]
A brand new research study, conducted by a group of Adelaide scientists, suggests that there was an incredible acceleration in the rate of evolution, some 580 million years ago. This was likely to have occurred during the “Cambrian explosion,” a period in time when many collections of modern animals rapidly materialized. These findings seem to […]