“Far from being the stupid cavemen of popular image, it’s becoming increasingly clear the Neanderthals were a highly sophisticated species of human.” — The marriage was built to last, but the house was built of 44,000-year-old mammoth bones.
Before we drank wine out of big plastic cups, we used the tops of other people’s heads.
If black-and-white drawings, ancient birds, and people dying appeal to you as much as they do to me, you might enjoy this story on the Giant, Baby-Eating Storks of Yesterday.
The recently discovered third type of ancient human — in addition to Neanderthals and regular human ancestors — was apparently at least OK-looking, because they “probably interbre[d] occasionally with humans like you and me,” says Ker Than of National…