Evolutionary biologist Huang Shi argues that lack of genetic diversity among East Asians suggests they are real ancestors of modern humans The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern ...

WUHAN -- The restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls, dating back to one million years ago, were unveiled by the ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries.

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

New research suggests that humans, new to the Americas, lived alongside giant ground sloths and mastodons for millennia.

Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...

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