For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

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Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates – or our early human ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

They once roamed free—until humans changed the course of evolution forever. This is the story of the moment wild animals became workers, food sources, and family Republican lawmaker flips to become a ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

Bladder cancer is a painful and often recurring disease, not just for humans, but for our canine companions as well. Urothelial carcinoma, the most common type of bladder cancer, affects both species ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

Nearly 300,000 years ago, Neanderthals had already figured out how to hunt mountain goats along vertical cliffs and process them in well-organised camps. Known for ambushing large animals in Western ...