A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Explores a six-level autonomy taxonomy for agentic AI, governance, and risk-aligned controls to safely deploy autonomous ...

Hidden inside the human body, scientists have uncovered thousands of bizarre RNA loops unlike anything in biology. These ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A tiny tropical flower is challenging a longstanding model for plant evolution. According to researchers at the Field Museum ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Harman develops his theme through diverting chapters on historiography (featuring an excursus on why Mongolian warlords gave ...

The fact that primates other than humans engage in homosexual behavior is well-documented. A recent study in Nature Ecology & ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...