Did you know real Hobbit people used to exist on the planet a long time ago? In September 2003, archaeologists on the Indonesian Island of Flores discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a small ...

How did the earliest members of the modern human species get here? Who did we evolve from? How did we live? Where did we live ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

At more than five feet tall, the Ice Age stork Leptoptilos robustus would have towered over the three-foot-tall Homo floresiensis, who lived more than 60,000 years ago. Paleontologists previously ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossil discoveries from the seabed in the Madura Strait, Indonesia, including Homo erectus skull fragments and remains of 36 vertebrate species, indicate that ...

Sand dredging off the coast of Java has recovered more than 6,000 bones, including two fragments of skulls of the early humans Homo erectus. H. erectus and the other animals found there lived on ...

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In a promotional video for the Sapien Center, a private health club in East Austin, shirtless men vault over picnic tables and lasers strobe to the beat of Diplo-esque techno. A woman swings from ...

“Everything must be rewritten about the greatest extinction in humanity and our understanding of this incredible process that will lead Homo sapiens to remain the only survival of humanity ...

It’s possible, even likely, that when W.W. Norton & Company decided to publish two fine new books about Magnus Hirschfeld –Daniel Brook’s “The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of ...

Europe's Forest Plants Thrive Best in Light-Rich, Semi-Open Woodlands -- Kept Open by Large Herbivores May 14, 2025 — Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but ...

Craniofacial development and structure in early Pleistocene Homo is unclear due to a lack of well-preserved specimens. Here, the authors examine infant craniofacial fossils from eastern and ...