Ancient stone tools that were discovered in the Tunel Wielki cave in Poland around 50 years ago have been re-examined and ...

Because their relative isolation encourages speciation, oceanic islands are hotspots of biodiversity. Yet their relatively ...

Remains of an extinct species of Bronze Age cattle have been discovered by archaeologists in a cave in the Yorkshire Dales.

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A new Dartmouth-led study reveals that hominins began eating carbohydrate-rich foods long before their teeth evolved to ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females.

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Hidden in the long-forgotten personal archives of a 20th-century anatomist was a pair of images depicting an extinct species ...

“These weren’t modest differences,” said Adam D. Gordon, an anthropologist at the University at Albany and lead author of the ...

Human extinction would have sweeping ecological consequences across the planet, potentially giving rise to new species and climates ...

At the very beginning of this book, you write, “How would your understanding of the meaning of your life change if you knew ...