New excavations near Canterbury reveal stone tools dating between 560,000 and 620,000 years old, proving Homo heidelbergensis once thrived in southern England. These early humans hunted, built ...

Researchers made an extraordinary discovery of 9,000-year-old rocks with drawings etched into them, positioned next to footprints believed to belong to dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period around 66 ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say. One genetic change flipped the ilium — the bone your hands rest on when ...

A sneak peek of Ken Burns' new documentary, "The American Revolution," will be shown in Wilmington, North Carolina. The free advance screening will take place on Nov. 8 at Thalian Hall. The full ...

After the Russian invasion, a couple’s plans for a rural idyll give way to an urgent sense of mission as proprietors of an animal sanctuary. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic The helmers ...

Megan Malherbe is affiliated with the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and the Human Evolution Research Institute at the University of Cape Town. Understanding what the ...

Do science documentaries need a refresh? What if the goal wasn’t just teaching you something, but making you feel something? A new series from the BBC, airing on PBS, called “Human” tries to do just ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ancestors lived and survived. Habitat shapes everything, from what food was ...