Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...
A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were ...
Researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents ...
About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal - meat from a woolly rhinoceros - shortly before dying on ...
The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...
Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...
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Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...
Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...
New research suggests that early humans may have butchered elephants as far back as 1.8 million years ago, reshaping our ...
A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...