Screaming into the void has roots in “Electra,” which has a lot to teach us about the thrill — and limits — of raised voices. Credit...Maciek Jasik for The New York Times Supported by By Jordan Kisner ...

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than previously believed. These new findings bridge the gap between early ape-like ...

A mother fiercely defended her eight-month-old after a man asked her to quiet her screaming baby in a restaurant, claiming he had sensitive hearing. The confrontation, filmed by the mom and shared on ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A shriekathon in “John Proctor Is the Villain” is the latest in a wave of young women letting their pipes loose — and exhorting anyone to join in. A shriekathon in “John Proctor ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

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A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the ...

An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the same region of Africa in the same time frame. When you purchase through ...

Researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity. The fossils, which include teeth that date to between 2.8 million and 2.6 million years ...

These new discovered dates by using a new dating method indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves are not from near the end of the Australopithecine era but that they actually date ...