Researchers of this study conducted uranium-based dating, which revealed that Homo juluensis lived sometime between 140,000 ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate change. Homo floresiensis, dubbed the “hobbits” for their ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The Salawusu site in Ordos, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: IC. Featuring more than 400 animal fossils, a new ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

Florida's six-week abortion ban, which critics call a near-total prohibition on the procedure, isn't the finish line for anti ...

It probably shouldn't be a surprise that harmonizing our voices together makes us feel better than belting out a song on our ...

Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered new evidence which suggests humankind's ability to master fire is some 350,000 years ...

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could bring ourselves to like animals.