This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley called Wadi Moghra. Scientists had previously found ancient monkey remains ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

It is fair to say that the family tree of ancient humans is not written in stone. Just take the case of the Denisovans, the enigmatic ancient humans who were, until recently, known only from a few ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as "primitive" or "ancient" and use terms like "higher" and "lower" animals. This anthropocentric ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the ...