MUSHROOMS may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates – or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for ...

The asteroid's neck, or "collum," — which joins the two lobes — has been named Windover. The name comes from the Windover ...

New dating methods at the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa reveal Australopithecus fossils are between 3.4 and 3.7 million years old, not 2 million as once believed. This discovery pushes back their ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

Hominids include all great apes and humans, while hominins specifically cover humans and our closest extinct relatives. From Australopithecus to Homo erectus and beyond, this split explains why chimps ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species related to humans.

These famous World Heritage Sites are loudly and proudly South African to the core. Here's where you can visit them!

Discovering the hidden steps in human pelvis development through embryonic research, shedding light on bipedal evolution mysteries.