About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside our early human forebears. These unearthed remnants provide a glimpse into ...

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony. When you purchase through links on ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

It is fair to say that the family tree of ancient humans is not written in stone. Just take the case of the Denisovans, the enigmatic ancient humans who were, until recently, known only from a few ...

The provenance of 3.4-million-year-old foot bones in Ethiopia may have finally been solved – and could prompt a rethink into how our various ancient human ancestors coexisted. In 2009, Yohannes ...