From ancient hybrid humans to older-than-expected fossils, 2021 delivered several discoveries that reshaped the human ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating back approximately 773,000 years are reshaping scientists’ understanding of human evolution ...

A rhinoceros skeleton buried beneath Canada's High Arctic for 23 million years has emerged as the northernmost member of its family ever documented, fundamentally reshaping understanding of ancient ...

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Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...