Learn more about human skull shape and how it has changed over millions of years.

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

Britain is an island where history is well and truly part of the landscape and an island where human feet have walked for a million years. We are constantly making groundbreaking archaeological ...

Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — ...

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Fossil and genetic evidence indicates our immediate human ancestors evolved in Africa beginning about two million years ago from older hominid stock. By that time there were at least three different ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution were studied for lead content, which was surprisingly high. To see the effect of lead on the human brain then and now, researchers ...

Several hominids — Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, early Homo sp., Gigantopithecus blacki, Pongo sp., Papio sp., Homo neanderthalensis, and Homo sapiens — were consistently exposed ...

A groundbreaking international study reveals that humans and their ancestors have been exposed to the toxic metal lead for over two million years — long before the Industrial Age. Credit: Stock ...

In an era of remakes and remasters, one indie title has been released on 9 different platforms in just over twenty years. Debuting in 2002 as a free-to-play Flash game available on any capable ...