Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

The newfound species belongs to the genus Paranthropus, whose nickname is "nutcracker man." ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to ...