In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Star Wars may have been the biggest sci-fi film out of the 1970s, but a surreal animated film from France might be the most ...

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Our preconceptions are often challenged when we engage with people cross-culturally. What might we discover if we turn that ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...