This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the chamber was reserved just for females, it could imply a level of complex and ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Ardipithecus ).

Newer research suggests Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct between about 295,000 and 215,000 years ago rather than disappearing suddenly. As southern China’s tropical forests became drier and more ...

A new North Carolina highway historical marker near the N.C. Zoo honors Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, and recognizes ...

Your laughter might be older than you think! A new study reveals that the rhythmic pattern of human laughter has remained consistent for at least 15 million years, shared with our great ape relatives.

Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has built a national profile as a combative, Trump-aligned online provocateur — a ...

A fresh claim suggests the ancient "hobbit" humans may still exist, though experts say the evidence is missing.

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

A century ago, millions of chimpanzees roamed across Africa, sharing 98.6 percent of our DNA and even crafting their own ...

Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins faces controversy as his son-in-law, a White nationalist influencer, is linked to ...