A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

Stalagmite data suggest Homo floresiensis faced prolonged drought that stressed both them and their prey, contributing to ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit ...

A pair of horses recently towed an antique piece of farm equipment through a cornfield in Kresgeville. In their wake, columns of cornstalks fell to the ground, already bound together and tied with ...

The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit ...

Hunting an entire herd of aurochs was no mean feat, and would have required sophisticated levels of cooperation and ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines social media as: “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to ...

Forensic evaluation can be applied to bodies that are long dead and poorly preserved. Dental records, DNA analysis, and ...

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

New research shows that domestic dogs began diversifying at least 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding. A major ...