Neanderthals clung onto existence in Eurasia until roughly 40,000 years ago, yet new research suggests that their numbers declined drastically around 70,000 years prior to their eventual extinction.

Mysterious Footprints Found in a Cave Reveal They Belonged to a Relative of Humans Who Walked Like a Bear We are aware of how ...

Whether humans are singular among animals in their use of complex language remains a hot topic among scientists in many fields. Rockefeller University researchers Robert B. Darnell and Erich D. Jarvis ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

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The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

Neanderthal blood protein differences linked to health risks Rare RhD type incompatible with other hominid blood types Genetic incompatibilities may explain ...

An alien bird species has landed in large parts of northern Italy, putting local wildlife at risk. The African sacred ibis is an invasive species that is thought to have invaded after it escaped ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins - the formal name for species in the human lineage - who ...