Articles by

Michael Marshall

How these strange cells may explain the origin of complex life

Citations R.B. Pedersen et al. Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the...

Drought may have doomed the ‘hobbits’ of Flores

A new climate record suggests that Homo floresiensis — pint-size human relatives nicknamed “hobbits” — endured thousands...

A drowned landscape held clues to the lives of ancient human relatives

A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus...

Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones...