China 146,000-Year-Old Advanced Stone Tools: Re-Dating Ice-Age Human Cognition

China 146,000-Year-Old Advanced Stone Tools: Re-Dating Ice-Age Human Cognition

A May 2026 paper in the Journal of Human Evolution redated the stone-tool floor at the Lingjing site in Henan Province, central China, to roughly 146,000 years ago, pushing prepared-core toolmaking in East Asia back by about twenty thousand years and assigning the work to Homo juluensis — an archaic human relative formally named only […]

The Oklahoma Dogman Forensic Test: How DNA Settled a March 2026 Animal-Attack Claim

The Oklahoma Dogman Forensic Test: How DNA Settled a March 2026 Animal-Attack Claim

On the early morning of March 29, 2026, a woman in a remote tract of rural Oklahoma was attacked by an animal. The initial sheriff’s-office summary categorized the assailant as an “unidentified animal,” and within forty-eight hours the cryptid corner of social media had reclassified her injuries as the work of a dogman. A forensic […]