A personal reflection recalls Jane Goodall’s quiet pragmatism, her deep bond with Gombe’s chimps and the scientific legacy of her skeletal collection.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Sequences of a protein derived from a ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...

Researchers currently have no idea why these extinct hominids went out collecting fossils, although they suggest the cache may have been amassed by Neanderthal children – just for fun.

The discovery of this petite primate in 2004 sent palaeontologists into a bit of a spin, as the species breaks one of the ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...