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• Neanderthals may have eaten maggots as part of their diet

  By Ann Gibbons Verified| Science Magazine Verified Neanderthals were hypercarnivores at the top of the food chain, eating as much meat as hyenas and cave lions. Or at least many researchers have assumed. But meat wasn’t the only thing on their menu, according to a presentation last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists: Our close cousins may have consumed lots of maggots.

  By Ann Gibbons Verified · Science Magazine

  Mar. 19, 2025

• Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European

  By Ann Gibbons Verified| Science Magazine Verified On his first day digging in a Spanish cave in 2022, archaeology graduate student Edgar Téllez found something spectacular: a mud-covered facial bone with tooth roots intact. His colleague, 
archaeologist Rosa Huguet, took a look. “I was 95% sure we had found a human fossil, but I didn’t dare say it was human remains,” says Huguet, who is at the Research Centers of Catalonia’s Catalan Institute for Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution at Rovira i Virgii University.

  By Ann Gibbons Verified · Science Magazine

  Mar. 12, 2025

• ‘Eloquent’ mice point to protein that may have shaped human speech

  By Ann Gibbons Verified| Science Magazine Verified A few years ago Yoko Tajima played matchmaker with a male and a female mouse, putting them together in a small dark cage. The male began courting the female with a series of squeaks too high-pitched for humans to hear. But as Tajima and César Vargas, a fellow neuroscience postdoc at Rockefeller University, watched the soundwaves crest and fall on a spectrogram, they exchanged a surprised look. The ultrasonic sweet talk was unusually complex. The pair rushed the recordings to their advisors.

  By Ann Gibbons Verified · Science Magazine

  Feb. 18, 2025

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