Who was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and us modern humans? The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is now seen as Homo heidelbergensis, but what do ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

More information: Kimberly Plomp et al, A test of the Archaic Homo Introgression Hypothesis for the Chiari malformation type I, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (2025). DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoaf009 ...

The final 20 photos were narrowed down from a pool of 2.3 million − 300,000 more than in 2023, Nat Geo Editor-in-Chief Nathan Lump said.