Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

The views from up in the trees showcase the beautiful southern Indiana landscape, with its rolling hills and forests creating ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Paint Mines Interpretive Park in Calhan is Colorado’s best-kept secret, and honestly, the locals would probably prefer it ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

Mankind encountering forces beyond their understanding has long been a great playground for horror, as exemplified by these ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...