The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.

Archaeologists spend careers mapping the expected, yet some of the most revealing discoveries arrive where no one thought to ...

The scope of all human knowledge is, understandably, so massive that no one person can manage to fully comprehend even a ...

The clawed creature — named for its elongated forehead and flat skulls — was even labeled “possibly extinct” within Thailand, ...

The morphological features of ‘Little Foot’ did not align with A. prometheus or A. africanus. Whether it is a new species is ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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