Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

While we know much of the story of how humans evolved, the puzzle is still missing critical pieces. For example, fossil evidence for human evolution between 2 and 3 million years ago is patchy. It’s ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...