So-called Ediacaran organisms have puzzled biologists for decades. Now, two paleontologists think they have finally established the identity of the mysterious creatures: They were animals, some of which could move around, but they were unlike any living on Earth today. Image: J Hoyal Cuthill
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It’s the morning of 24 September 2015, and Mona Hanna-Attisha is hours away from the biggest moment of her career. Then her phone rings. As she recalls in her new book, it was a representative from her university, calling to say the institution wasn’t in a position to support her in what she was about to do. Image: Images by John ‘K’
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Most readers have assumed that the Lorax was a character born in Theodor Seuss Geisel’s extraordinary mind. But a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on 23 July suggests that Geisel was inspired by a monkey ?that lives across West and East Africa. Image: Eric Kilby
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A trail of ancient bread crumbs has helped archaeologists put the origins of bread making in the Stone Age. The find provides the first direct evidence that humans were baking with wheat and oats thousands of years before they began farming the cereals. Image: Alexis Pantos
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Hominins reached Asia at least 2.1 million years ago, researchers assert in an 11 July Nature paper. Stone tools they found in central China represent the earliest known evidence of humans or their ancient relatives living outside Africa. Image: Prof. Zhaoyu Zhu
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