Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.
A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...
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In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed staffers to end all monkey research, according to a report in Science. The decision will affect studies involving some 200 macaques; ...
AZUMINO, Japan — In the foothills of Japan’s Northern Alps, people are chasing monkeys. Wearing bright orange vests, the humans ring bells, blow whistles and strike rocks and trees with walking sticks ...