Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

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A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

Less than a century after it was rediscovered, National Geographic's correspondent explored the ruins of Petra and found its ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

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A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...