May 23, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

May 23, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Evolutionary biology

EvolutionEvolutionary biologyPalaeoanthropologyPalaeoscience

Ancient Chinese Skull Helps Uncover The Evolutionary Process, Origin of Homo sapiens

On reconstructing the cranium of the one-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil, reserchers found that the cranium contained both primitive and derived traits and concluded that it is representative of the H. longi clade, which is sister to H. sapiens and likely contained the Denisovans

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EcologyEvolutionary biologyInsectivorous batNew species

Discovering India’s newest flying mammal — the Himalayan Long-tailed Myotis bat

The newly discovered Himalayan Long-tailed Myotis bat from Uttarakhand is a small, insectivorous bat weighing 6 grams and less than 5 cm long from snout to vent. The tail is nearly as long as the body. Like all insectivorous bats in India, this species is a fluffball with dark brown hair, and its face is bare and salmon pink

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EcologyEvolutionary biologyResearchScience

Himender Bharti gets honoured, has an ant species named after him

A new ant species discovered from the southern foothills of Pir Panjal Himalayas in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir is

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