The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

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Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

I came across an article claiming that 8 or 9 million year old fossils in Greece suggest that human ancestors evolved in ...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously ...

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Fossils unearthed from a Polish cave suggest early Europeans engaged in cannibalism, sometimes even eating the brains of their enemies, during a time of war about 18,000 years ago. At such a critical ...

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It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...