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<h1 class=”header-default__title___ychM4″> This hand stencil in Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art</h1>
<p class=”header-default__deck___UAY0V”> The cave art was made more than 67,000 years ago</p>
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<p>A stencil made on a cave wall about 67,800 years ago is the oldest rock art ever discovered.</p>
<p>“This image of a hand was created by someone placing their hand against the wall and then spraying a mouthful of paint around it,” says archaeologist Adam Brumm. The stencil is <a href=”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09968-y” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>among hundreds of later paintings of animals and other designs</a> daubed in ochre and charcoal on cave walls on Muna Island, near the large Indonesian island of Sulawesi, Brumm and colleagues report January 21 in <em>Nature</em>.</p>
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<p>“These people making the very earliest art on Sulawesi were part of the same broad population of modern humans who went on to colonize Australia by 65,000 years ago,” says Brumm, of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. The find, the team says, supports a theory that early <em>Homo sapiens</em> were present at that time on Sulawesi as the species island-hopped in dugout canoes to the ancient continent of Sahul, which once connected New Guinea and Australia.</p>
<p>Until now, the earliest cave art was thought to have been made by <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cave-art-suggests-neandertals-were-ancient-humans-mental-equals”>Neandertals in Europe</a> about 65,000 years ago.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image alignleft size-full” data-component=”lightbox”><img fetchpriority=”high” decoding=”async” width=”680″ height=”821″ src=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012025_TM_paintings_inline.jpg” alt=”A researcher looks up at creatures painted on the walls of a cave in Indonesia. Several large donkeylike animals are rendered in this ancient rock art.” class=”wp-image-3166115″ srcset=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012025_TM_paintings_inline.jpg 680w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012025_TM_paintings_inline.jpg?resize=154,186 154w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012025_TM_paintings_inline.jpg?resize=317,383 317w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012025_TM_paintings_inline.jpg?resize=373,450 373w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012025_TM_paintings_inline.jpg?resize=480,580 480w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/012025_TM_paintings_inline.jpg?resize=643,776 643w” sizes=”(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px”/><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”><span class=”caption wp-caption-3166115″>Caves in islands near the large Indonesian island of Sulawesi are filled with later but still ancient cave art such as these animal motifs.</span><span class=”credit wp-credit-3166115″>Maxime Aubert</span></figcaption></figure>
<p>In 2019, Brumm was part of a team that discovered a 44,000-year-old cave painting on Sulawesi that may be <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nearly-44000-year-old-hunting-scene-is-oldest-storytelling-art”>the earliest depiction of a story</a>. In 2021, his team found the earliest known cave painting depicting an animal: a <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-known-cave-painting-art-pig-found-indonesia”>45,0000-year-old pig</a>. He says the newfound hand stencil, which can barely be seen amid the encrustation of minerals and later paintings, shows the dawn of an artistic tradition that subsequently developed on Sulawesi over tens of thousands of years.</p>
<p>For the new study, the researchers dated 11 cave paintings on several satellite islands in the southeast of Sulawesi by analyzing uranium isotopes in the thin layers of mostly calcium carbonate that formed over them for millennia in the humid limestone caves. That work gave the team a precise timeline for the prehistoric paintings and led them to identify the hand stencil in Metanduno Cave on Muna Island as the oldest of all.</p>
<p>The stencil appears to have been made by slightly rotating the hand as it was painted, so that the fingers appeared narrowed or clawlike — a motif repeated in cave paintings on Muna and elsewhere in Sulawesi until about 20,000 years ago.</p>
<p>The ancient image may indicate a difference in the artistic capacity of Neandertals and early modern humans. Last year, hand stencils made by Neandertals more than 66,000 years ago <a href=”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24005194?via%3Dihub” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>were discovered in a cave in Spain</a>. While those stencils are some of the most sophisticated art Neandertals ever made, early <em>H. sapiens</em> began with hand stencils and went on to create wonders like <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stone-age-art-gets-animated”>the Chauvet Cave</a> in France, which is filled with hundreds of intricate cave paintings made between 37,000 and 32,000 years ago.</p>
<p>It’s not yet clear how the find impacts the old idea that Neandertals were not capable of abstract art and were only copying <em>H. sapiens. </em>“It’s an interesting possibility,” Brumm says. “The problem is that we don’t have evidence for modern humans creating that sort of cave art [in Europe] that Neandertals could have copied at such an early point.”</p>
<p>Some experts welcome the discovery as further evidence that early <em>H. sapiens</em> were island-hopping through this region at that time. “These people were crossing water channels by boat or raft,” says archaeologist Helen Farr of the University of Southampton in England, who has studied prehistoric seafaring to Sahul.</p>
<p>But others are cautious. Anthropologist James O’Connell of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City suggests the earliest rock art on Sulawesi could have been made by an earlier human group than the <em>H. sapiens</em> that migrated to Sahul. And he rejects the idea that travel between islands was possible only in boats. Instead, he says, it may be that they had swum or drifted there on debris, as other large mammals had. “The authors’ inferences about purposeful marine voyaging capacities are overdrawn.”</p>
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<p>A.A. Oktaviana <em>et al.</em> <a href=”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09968-y” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi</a>. <em>Nature</em>. Published online January 21, 2026. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09968-y.</p>
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<li class=”carousel__wrapper___wIECZ item-1 with-image has-eyebrow-flag swiper-slide” role=”listitem”> <figure class=”carousel__figure___kTYKK”> <a class=”carousel__thumbnail___qpV-2″ href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drought-doomed-hobbits-human-relatives” aria-hidden=”true” tabindex=”-1″> <img width=”330″ height=”186″ src=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?w=330″ class=”attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail” alt=”A bust shows what the face of Homo floresiensis, also known as hobbits, might have looked like.” loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg 1440w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?resize=330,186 330w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?resize=680,383 680w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?resize=1030,580 1030w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?resize=1378,776 1378w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px” data-attachment-id=”3163295″ data-permalink=”” data-orig-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg” data-orig-size=”1440,811″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}” data-image-title=”111425_MM_hobbit_feat” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=”<p>In a cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, there lived the “hobbits” (<em>Homo floresiensis</em>) (a reconstruction of a head, shown). But these human relatives vanished from the fossil record 50,000 years ago and a drought may have been partly to blame.</p> ” data-medium-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?w=680″ data-large-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/111425_MM_hobbit_feat.jpg?w=800″/> </a> </figure>
<div class=”carousel__content___Lm9o8″> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/topic/anthropology” class=”carousel__eyebrow___VMI-N”> Anthropology </a>
<!– The post title –> <h3 class=”carousel__title___1uDeB”> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drought-doomed-hobbits-human-relatives”> Drought may have doomed the ‘hobbits’ of Flores </a> </h3>
<div class=”carousel__meta___gWzdc”> By <span class=”carousel__byline___W1NyC author vcard”><a class=”byline-link url fn n” href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/author/michael-marshall” title=”Posts by Michael Marshall”>Michael Marshall</a></span><time class=”carousel__date___6yarP entry-date published” datetime=”2025-12-08T05:00:00-05:00″>December 8, 2025</time> </div> </div> </li> <li class=”carousel__wrapper___wIECZ item-2 with-image has-eyebrow-flag swiper-slide” role=”listitem”> <figure class=”carousel__figure___kTYKK”> <a class=”carousel__thumbnail___qpV-2″ href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-neandertal-werent-nose-cold-climate” aria-hidden=”true” tabindex=”-1″> <img width=”330″ height=”186″ src=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?w=330″ class=”attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail” alt=”A close-up image of a fossilized human skull covered in smooth white bumps of calcification” loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg 1440w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=330,186 330w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=680,383 680w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=1030,580 1030w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=1378,776 1378w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px” data-attachment-id=”3163114″ data-permalink=”” data-orig-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg” data-orig-size=”1440,811″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}” data-image-title=”120125_TS_neandertal_feat” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=”<p>The exceptionally well-preserved nasal cavity of this over 130,000 year old Neandertal skull wasn’t specially adapted for cold and is similar to that of <em>Homo sapiens</em>, a new study finds.</p> ” data-medium-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?w=680″ data-large-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120125_TS_neandertal_feat.jpg?w=800″/> </a> </figure>
<div class=”carousel__content___Lm9o8″> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/topic/anthropology” class=”carousel__eyebrow___VMI-N”> Anthropology </a>
<!– The post title –> <h3 class=”carousel__title___1uDeB”> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-neandertal-werent-nose-cold-climate”> Big Neandertal noses weren’t made for cold </a> </h3>
<div class=”carousel__meta___gWzdc”> By <span class=”carousel__byline___W1NyC author vcard”><a class=”byline-link url fn n” href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/author/tom-metcalfe” title=”Posts by Tom Metcalfe”>Tom Metcalfe</a></span><time class=”carousel__date___6yarP entry-date published” datetime=”2025-12-05T11:00:00-05:00″>December 5, 2025</time> </div> </div> </li> <li class=”carousel__wrapper___wIECZ item-3 with-image has-eyebrow-flag swiper-slide” role=”listitem”> <figure class=”carousel__figure___kTYKK”> <a class=”carousel__thumbnail___qpV-2″ href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-southern-africa-gene-evolution” aria-hidden=”true” tabindex=”-1″> <img width=”330″ height=”186″ src=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?w=330″ class=”attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail” alt=”An ancient skull on display in a museum against a black background” loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg 1440w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?resize=330,186 330w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?resize=680,383 680w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?resize=1030,580 1030w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?resize=1378,776 1378w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px” data-attachment-id=”3163147″ data-permalink=”” data-orig-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg” data-orig-size=”1440,811″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}” data-image-title=”120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=”<p>Ancient southern Africans, represented here by a skull dating to between about 82,000 and 170,000 years ago, evolved a unique set of gene variants over the past several hundred thousand years, an ancient DNA study finds.</p> ” data-medium-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?w=680″ data-large-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/120325_BB_AfricaHomosapiens_feat.jpg?w=800″/> </a> </figure>
<div class=”carousel__content___Lm9o8″> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/topic/humans” class=”carousel__eyebrow___VMI-N”> Humans </a>
<!– The post title –> <h3 class=”carousel__title___1uDeB”> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-southern-africa-gene-evolution”> Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a new direction </a> </h3>
<div class=”carousel__meta___gWzdc”> By <span class=”carousel__byline___W1NyC author vcard”><a class=”byline-link url fn n” href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/author/bruce-bower” title=”Posts by Bruce Bower”>Bruce Bower</a></span><time class=”carousel__date___6yarP entry-date published” datetime=”2025-12-03T11:00:00-05:00″>December 3, 2025</time> </div> </div> </li> <li class=”carousel__wrapper___wIECZ item-4 with-image has-eyebrow-flag swiper-slide” role=”listitem”> <figure class=”carousel__figure___kTYKK”> <a class=”carousel__thumbnail___qpV-2″ href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/foot-fossil-early-human-relative-lucy” aria-hidden=”true” tabindex=”-1″> <img width=”330″ height=”186″ src=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?w=330″ class=”attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail” alt=”A photo of bones from a skeletal foot of a hominid” loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg 1440w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?resize=330,186 330w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?resize=680,383 680w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?resize=1030,580 1030w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?resize=1378,776 1378w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px” data-attachment-id=”3163060″ data-permalink=”” data-orig-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg” data-orig-size=”1440,811″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}” data-image-title=”112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=”<p>A partial foot skeleton from 3.4 million years ago has been assigned to the early human relative<i data-stringify-type="italic">Australopithecus deyiremeda,</i>a species that was first named in 2015 and challenges the traditional view of human evolution during this time.</p> ” data-medium-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?w=680″ data-large-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/112525_JB_hominidfoot_feat.jpg?w=800″/> </a> </figure>
<div class=”carousel__content___Lm9o8″> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/topic/anthropology” class=”carousel__eyebrow___VMI-N”> Anthropology </a>
<!– The post title –> <h3 class=”carousel__title___1uDeB”> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/foot-fossil-early-human-relative-lucy”> A foot fossil suggests a second early human relative lived alongside Lucy </a> </h3>
<div class=”carousel__meta___gWzdc”> By <span class=”carousel__byline___W1NyC author vcard”><a class=”byline-link url fn n” href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/author/jay-bennett” title=”Posts by Jay Bennett”>Jay Bennett</a></span><time class=”carousel__date___6yarP entry-date published” datetime=”2025-11-26T11:00:00-05:00″>November 26, 2025</time> </div> </div> </li> <li class=”carousel__wrapper___wIECZ item-5 with-image has-eyebrow-flag swiper-slide” role=”listitem”> <figure class=”carousel__figure___kTYKK”> <a class=”carousel__thumbnail___qpV-2″ href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/genetic-shifts-helped-humans-walk-two-legs” aria-hidden=”true” tabindex=”-1″> <img width=”330″ height=”186″ src=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?w=330″ class=”attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail” alt=”A black and white illustration of a human skeleton and four primate skeletons in profile” loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg 1440w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?resize=330,186 330w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?resize=680,383 680w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?resize=1030,580 1030w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?resize=1380,776 1380w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px” data-attachment-id=”3161353″ data-permalink=”” data-orig-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg” data-orig-size=”1440,810″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"Copyright Ralf Hettler","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}” data-image-title=”1022125_rm_pelvis_feat” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=”<p>Skeletons of a human, gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan and gibbon stand next to one another in this anatomical sketch. Scientists have uncovered two genetic shifts in humans that differentiate the pelvis from those of our primate relatives, allowing us to walk upright.</p> ” data-medium-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?w=680″ data-large-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/1022125_rm_pelvis_feat.jpg?w=800″/> </a> </figure>
<div class=”carousel__content___Lm9o8″> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/topic/anthropology” class=”carousel__eyebrow___VMI-N”> Anthropology </a>
<!– The post title –> <h3 class=”carousel__title___1uDeB”> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/genetic-shifts-helped-humans-walk-two-legs”> Two tiny genetic shifts helped early humans walk upright </a> </h3>
<div class=”carousel__meta___gWzdc”> By <span class=”carousel__byline___W1NyC author vcard”><a class=”byline-link url fn n” href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/author/roberta-mclain” title=”Posts by Roberta McLain”>Roberta McLain</a></span><time class=”carousel__date___6yarP entry-date published” datetime=”2025-10-28T11:00:00-04:00″>October 28, 2025</time> </div> </div> </li> <li class=”carousel__wrapper___wIECZ item-6 with-image has-eyebrow-flag swiper-slide” role=”listitem”> <figure class=”carousel__figure___kTYKK”> <a class=”carousel__thumbnail___qpV-2″ href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-neandertals-traveled-asia” aria-hidden=”true” tabindex=”-1″> <img width=”330″ height=”186″ src=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?w=330″ class=”attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail” alt=”image of Starosele rock-shelter” loading=”lazy” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg 1440w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=330,186 330w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=680,383 680w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=1030,580 1030w, https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?resize=1380,776 1380w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px” data-attachment-id=”3161612″ data-permalink=”” data-orig-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg” data-orig-size=”1440,810″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}” data-image-title=”102425_BB_neandertal_feat” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=”<p>Excavations decades ago at Crimea’s Starosele rock-shelter, shown here, yielded a fossil bone that has now divulged a genetic glimpse of long-distance Neandertal treks into Asia.</p> ” data-medium-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?w=680″ data-large-file=”https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/102425_BB_neandertal_feat.jpg?w=800″/> </a> </figure>
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<!– The post title –> <h3 class=”carousel__title___1uDeB”> <a href=”https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-neandertals-traveled-asia”> DNA reveals Neandertals traveled thousands of kilometers into Asia </a> </h3>
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