A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Based on the skeletal evidence, the researchers realized they had discovered a true hybrid of ape and human. The forearms ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

The Hawaiian Po'ouli or black-faced honeycreeper. You won't see this bird anymore, because it is extinct. (Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife) The ...

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