Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

an archaeologically rich site nearby in Tanzania—were shaped by our human ancestors into an impressive variety of wedges and hammers between 2.6 million and 1.6 million years ago, at the very ...

A discovery made over half a century ago in Antelope Springs, Utah, continues to raise eyebrows in the scientific community.

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Recent fossil discoveries have revealed that two million years ago, one of our distant human ancestors, Paranthropus robustus ...

In the early 1980s, the virus’s ravages were treated as “something that happens over there, only to those people,” Juan ...

That’s when geologists studying salt-rich rock outcrops around the Mediterranean became increasingly aware that something unusual had happened between roughly 5 and 6 million years ago ...

Right now, in addition to a baseline 10 percent tariff on most U.S. imports, Trump has placed 25 percent tariffs on aluminum ...

after they diverged from other primates but well before the human and chimp lineages diverged about six million years ago. Although Allman is renowned as a neuroanatomist, it's not surprising to ...

For example, human activities have been adding more and more nitrogen ... “In addition, terrestrial ecosystems underwent a major transition between eight and six million years ago,” Wang said. “Many ...