Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

For decades, scientists believed modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage. However, new research has not only challenged this view, it has simultaneously spawned a new mystery ...

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Willmore thanked Elon Musk for bringing them back to their home, Earth. The duo, initially sent for an eight-day-mission had to endure a total of 286 days on the ...

BRYAN JOHNSON wants to live for ever. The American businessman pops a hundred pills a day, never eats after 11am, and obsessively monitors dozens of his body’s “biomarkers”. The goal, as he ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species ...