A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how temporal lobes evolved in response to social complexity and ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...

“If we compare that to the great apes, a great ape would probably barely have time to go to kindergarten ... Zollikofer calls ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously thought, according to a new study ...

Rescued after being orphaned and shot in the head by poachers, an infant gorilla is now safely in the care of Ape Action ...

The Sonos Arc Ultra sounds great in movies thanks to an impressive array of speakers but the S$1,899 soundbar is costly in ...

The skull, estimated to be 1.75 million years old ... The anatomy was unlike Lucy, whose skeleton revealed an ape-like creature with a small brain that could walk on two feet, with powerful ...