A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

Mountain gorillas are the global superstars among the world’s great apes. They rose to fame following their memorable encounter with David Attenborough, vice-president of Fauna & Flora since 1979, ...

Her numerous discoveries of early hominids redefined our understanding of where the first humans originated from. Florence Nightingale rose to fame during the Crimean War of 1853-1856, where she ...

But then there were also other groups, like one that we discovered a few years ago that lived in Asia, the so-called Denisovans. They were named based on a cave where the bones were discovered in ...

Prehistoric people may have used throwing spears to hunt large animals 300,000 years ago – and perhaps as far back as 2 million years ago. A new analysis of preserved wooden spears indicates ...

Were Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a distant freshwater source ... The study also confirmed that the variant is not found in either Neanderthals or Denisovans, ...