About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

Is your dog constantly tucking treats under your sofa or burying toys in the garden? You might think they're behaving like a ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...

I think his ideas and arguments are still worth grappling with as one tries to make sense of this ever stranger world.

Some people always have their noses in a book, Judy Dworin uses her feet. The well-known Hartford-area modern dance ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

Microplastics can contaminate soil, water, and air. As a result, they become part of the environment. “Microplastics can get ...

New research suggests that ‘early human pioneers’ in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

New research confirms humans first reached the Sahul super-continent by two different routes around 60,000 years ago.