A MAJOR mystery surrounding tiny ancient human cousins nicknamed “Hobbits” has finally been solved. Scientists say they’ve cracked a main puzzle about how the 3-foot-tall species ...

Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say ...

It's a long-held belief that one of our earliest ancestors, Homo habilis, was the first of our genus to transition from prey to predator. Archaeological evidence suggests that they were among the ...

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 ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been ...

Scientists have just uncovered a shocking truth: Homo habilis, once thought to be an early apex predator, was actually hunted ...

In July 2025, at the archaeological site of Orozmani in the Kvemo Kartli region of the country of Georgia, an international ...

The Middle Pleistocene was a turning point for human adaptation in East Asia, as shifting climates reshaped landscapes and ...

NASA and IAU have named a feature on asteroid Donald Johanson after India’s Narmada Valley, honouring its fossil heritage.

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

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It can seem of late that the experiment in evolution we call Homo sapiens has gone horribly wrong, notwithstanding my ability ...