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Jane Goodall meeting with US diplomats in October 2015.
Global

Remembering global conservation champion Jane Goodall, who passed away at 91

October 9, 2025

The world lost one of its greatest champions for conservation and wildlife habitat protection last week. Renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall passed away naturally in Los Angeles, California, while traveling for public appearances. She […]

Life-sized, naturalistic camel engraving documented at Jebel Misma, Saudi Arabia.
Africa and Middle East

Human Origins: Rock art guided travelers to water in prehistoric Saudi Arabia

October 8, 2025

Art is as old as human civilization. It predates the written word. And the world’s protected areas are home to some of the earliest surviving pieces of prehistoric art. Last year, scientists unveiled the world’s […]

Dargan Shelter sheltered the earliest Australians during the last Ice Age.
Oceania

Human Origins: Oldest Ice Age human settlement in Australia found high up in the Blue Mountains

July 2, 2025

Archaeologists with the Australian Museum say they’ve uncovered unequivocal evidence of continued Ice Age human habitation in a cave in the Blue Mountains at high elevations, at altitudes that ancient peoples were previously thought to […]

A montage of chimpanzees observed practicing medicine during the study.
Africa and Middle East

Apes found treating each other’s wounds in Ugandan forest

May 21, 2025

Great apes not only treat themselves with medicinal plants, but they also administer first aid to each other in this way. That’s what scientists are now saying after witnessing a colony of chimpanzees in Uganda […]

Bone tools found in Olduvai, photographed in the Pleistocene Archaeology Lab of CSIC.
Africa and Middle East

1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Olduvai

March 5, 2025

The world’s oldest known bone tools have been unearthed at Olduvai Gorge, giving archaeologists and anthropologists deeper insight into the evolution of hominins and Homo sapiens. A study released today describes an assemblage of bone […]

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