A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

Among its enduring treasures is Ethiopia’s most famous export: Arabica coffee. We started the day at Tomoca Coffee on Wavel ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK’s science book prize. He emphasised that a constant feature of that history ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

If you wonder why grandparents care so deeply for their grandchildren, it all began a million years ago in the plains of Africa, writes geriatrician Dr. William Thomas in his book, “What are Old ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...

Uncover the groundbreaking discovery of the “Dragon Head” hominid skull in China, a find that challenges the long-standing Out of Africa theory! This fascinating fossil, dating back ...

Donaldjohanson—named for the anthropologist who discovered the fossilized hominid Lucy in 1974—is a small main belt asteroid at roughly 3 miles (4 kilometers) in diameter. Newly released NASA ...

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