Jean-Jacques Hublin discovered Homo sapiens fossils that pushed back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. Now, in a new ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Understanding natural history presents a profound challenge. It involves trying to grasp the undocumented progress of countless millennia, such as the evolutionary journey of various species. One ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter’s wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin ...