How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously ...

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

Previous evidence for human ancestry made use of fossils that bore a closer resemblance to modern humans. Dart’s description was astounding because it was of a species that was more apelike than ...

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