SWARTKRANS CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA—Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa ...

Evidence of one of the smallest — and perhaps unluckiest — early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution. Researchers who found what they ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new fossil discovery of Paranthropus robustus, an early human ancestor, reveals it was a habitual upright walker, similar to modern humans. The individual was ...

As if US waterways weren’t teeming with enough invasive fish of late, a Texas angler caught a South American piranha relative with “human teeth” at a local lake on Sunday. The fish ...

LB1 showed that the hobbit skull had characteristics more like our close human relative Homo erectus, though the rest of its body seemed to align with more primitive species such as ...

Genetic research that created a model of a Denisovan skeleton suggests that these mysterious human relatives were ... even helped them understand the direction of change, like whether a mutation ...

It also offers some guidance for new directions in human development, many of which can apply well against the context of Bangladesh. We can start with the mainstreaming of human development ...

The much-publicised claim that a species of small-brained ancient human buried its dead and produced rock art is completely unfounded, according to a group of researchers. “The evidence for ...

Human Geography Nature and Scope Class 12 MCQs: Geography is a diverse branch of the arts stream for Class 12 students. This merges with science in the higher study courses. Human geography is a ...

Officials often portray human trafficking as being controlled by large, organized crime groups — frequently referred to as “cartels” — but the reality on the US-Mexico border illustrates that there is ...

Now, researchers are using the skeleton to figure out how this ancient human relative moved 3.2 million years ago. The findings of the study were published Tuesday in the journal Royal Society ...