Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived ...
The newly described lineage belongs to an order called Hodarchaeales (or “Hods” for short) found in marine sediments. Like ...
From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...
Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.