This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

Humans Arrived in the Final Minutes of Earth’s “Year” — And the Future Holds Astonishing Events ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Monte Verde is certainly ancient, but as it turns out, evidence of human occupation at the site is not quite as ancient as it was once believed to be ...