Yet, for all its aesthetic and expressive potency, the neck is also a site of fear and deep vulnerability. Villains and ...

A SUDDEN population increase in Europe some 20,000 years ago forced our ancient human ancestors to battle it out over ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...

Northumbria University’s Dr Vasile Ersek and an international team have uncovered evidence of early hominins in Europe dating back at least ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...

New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of human evolution. Tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and ...

Found in their thousands at Oldupai Gorge, stone tools tell us about how our early ancestors hunted and worked, while the remains of animal bones ... One of several species that preceded modern-day ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...

Nitrogen isotope analysis of tooth enamel reveals no evidence of meat consumption in Australopithecus. New research published in the journal Science suggests that early human ancestors, such as ...