A team of researchers from Griffith University have unearthed a complex technological device in central China that has altered our understanding of our history.

About 50,000 years ago, we shared this planet with different hominids called the Neanderthals. Their species wasn't human, but they weren't far from it either. No longer walking among us, these early ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful - and our female ancestors appeared to fancy them, according to a new study. (Image is AI-generated).

I have a theory. I call it the soup theory of everything. You won’t find it published in any scientific journal, at least not yet.

Over 40 years ago, a fantasy-adventure movie was released in Quest for Fire, defying all expectations and marking Ron Perlman ...

A note as Hustle Belt closes its doors.

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors. Anyone who has ever left their wooden tools outside knows ...