By redefining aging as an evolutionary achievement, Michael Gurven challenges a youth-obsessed culture to see the later ...

NASA's first multiple-satellite mission to another planet will map Mars' magnetic field and atmosphere in 3D, laying the ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

Anthony Hemingway, who helmed four episodes of Ryan Murphy's buzzy Hulu legal drama, offers his take on working with reality ...

A newly discovered Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast has revealed the first fossilized footprints of these ancient humans in the region. A new international study published in Scientific ...

This is the story of Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus), one of our special ancestors called hominis. The discovery of her ...

A new AI study finds leopards hunted early humans in East Africa, challenging long-held ideas about when our ancestors became ...

The Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, a toponym that gives its name to an entire technological era of humanity, the Oldowan, must ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...