What would have happened if, 65 million years ago, a meteor had not struck the Earth, contributing to the extinction of the ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

A research team, led by Ohio University’s Sabrina Curran, has discovered evidence that human ancestors arrived in Europe ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

People on the Tibetan Plateau have developed unique physiological traits over 10,000 years to thrive in low-oxygen conditions ...

For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...