Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...

New research sheds light on the characteristics of the last common ancestor (LCA) of humans and chimpanzees, suggesting it ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

The record of humanity is incomplete, but researchers discovered a well-preserved skull which calls into question assumptions ...

MANY readers will have come across Marx and Engels’ writings on history, from The Peasant War in Germany (Engels, on the 16th ...

A new study finds the hobbit Homo floresiensis had a human-like pelvis, suggesting slower upright walking and leaving its ...

Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park continues to offer important glimpses of prehistoric life in Nebraska.

The bearded capuchins of northeastern Brazil typically eat plant-based foods, but they turn to small vertebrates when those ...

We hear plenty about the great apes, but what about the lesser apes? It turns out there's just one group, gibbons, and they ...

Eleven thousand years ago, someone in what is now southeastern Turkey carved a figure of a human being sitting on the back of ...

Researchers observed and confirmed with measurements that wild sooty mangabey monkeys in an Ivory Coast forest display foot bone flexibility that facilitates vertical climbing up skinny tree trunks to ...

This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as ...