A team of experts have found a tooth in Ethiopia which may rewrite our human family tree and forever alter our understanding of where we came from.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

Oaks and their cousins are the third largest group of tree species, by volume, in Michigan forests. They’re found in all 83 counties and number at least twelve species, with ...

Scientists used a particle accelerator to reconstruct the 3.7-million-year-old face of Little Foot, one of the most complete ...

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

See how trees rose, endured and survived across 500 million years; evolving superpowers and weaponry; and shaping how we grip ...

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.

Scientists have found that the malaria-transmitting 'Anopheles' species developed a taste for humans around 2 million years ago, a period overlapping with the arrival of 'Homo erectus', an extinct ...

A couple of years ago, Sarah Venter wrote an article gently picking apart alarm over the specter of Africa’s iconic baobabs ...

In Southeast Asia, mosquitoes in the Anopheles genus range from species that prefer humans to species that favor other primates, such as gibbons and orangutans. By sequencing DNA from 11 mosquito ...