Maba 1 was considered a ‘Chinese Neanderthal’ for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did ...

This allowed them to reconstruct a family tree showing which fossils belonged to the same groups. The Eurasian hominins clustered into three groups: modern humans, Neanderthals and H. longi.

A remarkably well-preserved fossil found in Spain is the most complete stegosaur skull ever discovered in Europe.

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil recently offered researchers ... and its association primarily with anatomically modern humans (during the Laschamps) is also suggestive of people's ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...