A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Researchers at the Waltham Petcare Science Institute in the UK recently revealed a complete taxonomic and functional catalog ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

For most mammals, fur is essential for survival. Humans lost it anyway and didn’t just survive, they adapted. Fossil and ...

Hirola” translates from Somali to something like “the peaceful one” or “the lone one,” referring to its solitary habits. Like other antelopes, Hirola are social but tend to form small herds of 10 to ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than ...

Far from being neutral and objective, the law often perpetuates existing prejudices – particularly gender stereotypes – which ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...