More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that consisted of rivers, wetlands, and scattered woodlands. However, new research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The predator likely ambushed animals, including early hominins, at rivers and lakes. Fossils revealed unique features that ...

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity ...

A University of Iowa-led research team looks forward to paleontologists paying more attention to lesser researched species, ...

These clues from ancient meals are enabling scientists to reconstruct pictures of entire ecosystems, including forests, wetlands and grasslands that existed at the time. It’s a reminder that in a very ...

The geological features of an oddly shaped asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft now have official names, and like the ...

Joseph Shavit Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after ...

For 60 years, the earliest known human species has also been one of the most mysterious. Homo habilis was added to our family tree in 1964. But it's long been unclear exactly what the ancient species, ...

A unique comedy improv approach called ‘The Experts’ starts off with a TED-talk style lecture by an actual expert in their field, followed by the comedy team at Lickety-Split improvising by taking ...