Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Spread the loveThe scientific community was recently shaken by an extraordinary fossil discovery that challenges long-held beliefs about the timeline of human evolution. A team of researchers led by ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

In this video, we explore the entire 13.8 billion year history of our Universe compressed into a single calendar year. Key ...

A primer on medieval chants, minimalist opera and everything in between. By Mitchell Kuga The origins of what we think of as Western classical music date back to the 10th century, with the development ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...

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A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes with those of living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people ...

Homo erectus is arguably the first hominin that really started to resemble us, with shorter arms and longer legs than species that came before. It was also the first human ancestor known to have ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

Settlements on the moon are classic science fiction settings, but despite purported attempts by NASA to build homes on the moon, we've never really come close to building one. It's not hard to see why ...