A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A new study used modern methods to reassess a foundational study in biology that explained how ecologically similar species of wood warblers coexist. The research team examined foraging behavior, ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

Fossils unearthed in South Africa turn out to be of an extinct human cousin that used to stand upright and was vulnerable to ...

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In addition to this incredible documentation, the scientists found evidence of a legendary bipedal primate that could be a close relative of humans. "The Orang Pendek ... archaeologists discovered ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

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Cooler climates tend to be at higher elevations, and gravity makes it difficult for seeds to migrate uphill. The paper suggested humans should assist the trees with migration because warming ...