Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived ...

Roadrunners - known for strutting around Arizona deserts and inspiring wacky cartoons - have much in common with another animal species: human beings. The shared traits are the topic of a free Monday ...

The newly described lineage belongs to an order called Hodarchaeales (or “Hods” for short) found in marine sediments. Like ...