The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

While Jurassic World Evolution 2 can be challenging at times beginners can ... While players can't evolve their hominids into ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

The warty comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, a fascinatingly weird creature that can regenerate parts of its body, reproduce from ...

In this feature, we learn about the genomic and anthropological integration of data informing human population histories.

Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered "hominin" group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...