Early Europeans celebrated victory in war by eating their enemies’ brains, cave fossils show - Demographic expansion after ...

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

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

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

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The Star, a daily South African newspaper, featured a story on an exciting scientific discovery – the fossilized skull of a ...

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

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 ...

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

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...