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 ...

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

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 ...

May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...

A new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before going their separate ways 80,000 years ago.

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East ...