Two 1.9 million-year-old skeletons found in a South African cave have added a new and intriguing member to the primate family.
Dubbed Australopithecus sediba, it has many features — including long legs and a protruding nose …

World history has been marred by some truly epic conflicts which have killed hundreds of millions often over very petty local matters. Out of the debris of these wars, some great superpowers like the …

A newly-reconstructed deformed fossil skull suggests that our human ancestors probably cared for deformed offspring for years.
The skull indicates that the human to which it belonged about 530,000 years ago would have been severely handicapped …