In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pre-human fossil "Lucy" from Ethiopia is on display in Europe for the first time. The exhibition at the National Museum in ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how scientists think about human evolution. For a long time, researchers thought it ...

Scientists have identified a 3.3-million-year-old giant prehistoric monster crocodile species that likely hunted early human ...

The study of human skeletal biology has advanced markedly through the integration of high‐resolution imaging, geometric morphometrics and archaeological data. Detailed analysis of long bone ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...