A trail of ancient footprints in northern Tanzania has preserved a strangely intimate moment from 3.66 million years ago ...

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Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67 million years ago, ...

Our time on this planet has been relatively short, yet in this time we’ve come face to face with some of Earth’s most ...

A previously undescribed critter that lived 324 million years ago appears to have been a transitional species that lived ...

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Early life may have evolved around both molybdenum and tungsten rather than switching from one metal to the other as Earth changed. Credit: Shutterstock. Ancient microbes appear t ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

Recent research from Monash University is prompting a significant reevaluation of how scientists classify and name our ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be folded into the genus Homo because new fossils have blurred many of the traits ...

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...