“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

For the first time, we now have a glimpse of what Lucy — one of the most famous ancestors of modern humans — might have ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...