Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting South Africa.The Sterkfontein Caves yielded numerous fossil discoveries ...

A blue plaque will be installed at the former home of Louis Leakey in High Street, Foxton, Cambridgeshire. Dr Leakey ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

As animal-human conflicts increase, experts debate whether climate change or urban expansion is the bigger cause. Rising ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Fired by a political animus and what constitutes good science, the “Naledi Wars” show no immediate sign of abating.

In the animal kingdom, injuries are a fact of life. In fact, wounds are so common that most mammals evolved ways to close ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

The recent discovery of fossil evidence of a tree species now considered endemic to the Western Ghats, in a coalfield in ...

The Anthropocene (The Age of Humans) has been proposed as a new geological epoch after or within the Holocene, and, if formalised, would be the first to be introduced based on geologically observable ...