New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

Strange 1.4 million-year-old fossil traced to previously unknown human relative 'nutcracker man’ - ‘Nutcracker man’ likely ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...

Fossils unearthed from a Polish cave suggest early Europeans engaged in cannibalism, sometimes even eating the brains of their enemies, during a time of war about 18,000 years ago. At such a critical ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed at the Swartkrans archaeological site, belonged to an early human species called Homo ergaster. But new X-ray scans of the ...