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

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Using startlingly realistic models, Ice Age artefacts and easy-to-follow exhibits, the museum takes visitors on a ...

An ASU evolutionary anthropologist offers a groundbreaking theory on why humans have come to dominate the world over other ...

Aurochs are an extinct species of ... scientists say that human activity or climate change contributed to their demise. The ...

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

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Our ancient evolutionary cousins on Flores represent a unique lineage who lived during a time multiple human ... species of Komodo dragon. (Here’s what thousands of rat bones reveal about the hi ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the ...