Dec 6, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Homo juluensis — a newly-erected human species that includes enigmatic Denisovans and several hominin fossils from Tibet, Taiwan and Laos —...

Oct 11, 2024 by News Staff

Archaeologists excavating Tam Pà Ling (Cave of Monkeys) in northeastern Laos have recovered fossil evidence for some of the earliest Homo sapiens presence...

May 17, 2022 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have found a permanent lower molar of a young, likely female, hominin individual at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 limestone cave in the Annamite...

Jul 13, 2018 by News Staff

Modern-day Southeast Asian populations are the result of mixing among four ancient populations, including multiple waves of genetic material from more...

Apr 18, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of entomologists has described a new species of dragonfly from Annamense Mountains in eastern Cambodia and southern Laos. Asiagomphus...

Sep 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of biologists from Thailand, UK and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has described a new species of flying squirrel in...

Aug 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Peter Jäger, a spider expert with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of tropical wolf spider in...

Oct 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An arachnologist from Germany has discovered a harvestman with a leg span of more than 13 inches (33 cm) during a research trip to Laos. This is a harvestman...

Aug 21, 2012 by News Staff

According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...

Aug 10, 2012 by News Staff

An arachnologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered the world’s first eyeless huntsman spider. A very special...