Do you know why the scientific name for human beings isn't just "humans"? It has an interesting reason! Homo sapiens, the scientific name for humans, is a way to tell what kind of people we are. It ...

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an open question since their discovery 15 years ago. Now, recent research by a ...

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Leakey Foundation, National Geographic, and the European Research Council. The internet’s latest absurd obsession is: ...

Hitherto, the earliest fossils recognized as belonging to the Hominidae, from Fort Ternan and the Siwaliks, have been dated to the Mio-Pliocene. Discoveries in early Miocene deposits at Songhor and ...

Mountain gorillas are the global superstars among the world’s great apes. They rose to fame following their memorable encounter with David Attenborough, vice-president of Fauna & Flora since 1979, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Brown plastic cast cranium of Olduvai ...

The majority of Beware the Planet of the Apes has been about original series characters Zira and Cornelius and their search for their nephew Lucius, held captive by The Hominidae Empire. Zira and ...

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Common Name: Modern Human. Other names: "Man," "the naked ape." Current Distribution: Worldwide. Extremely adaptable and intelligent, it has acclimated to nearly every ecosystem through evolutionary ...

This new potential species—described in a study published recently in the journal PLOS One and given the name Buronius manfredschmidi—wouldn’t have been a competitor. Rather, it displayed a different ...