Tamil Nadu's archaeology department recently released stunning evidence that Chief Minister MK Stalin said showed the Iron ...

Over the past 5,000 years, money has profoundly altered humanity and our relationships with each other and with the rest of ...

On the hopeful side: The Lion Recovery Fund reports that ... Lions, despite their apex predator status, are especially vulnerable to us homo sapiens because many of them—about 14,000, or 70 ...

The rest stood watching, heads cocked to the side. As though they were stunned ... and so were fully formed when Homo sapiens emerged. It is no great stretch to believe that in our youth, we ...

Imagine two Homo sapiens ancestors eating a meal of raw squirrel ... Now imagine three friends jumping onto your side to counterbalance anxiety’s weight. While it may be impossible to eliminate ...

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread worldwide. Image:Le Moustier’s 1920s art reconstruction of Neanderthals.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...