Scientists say they have found 3 Neanderthal teeth in a cave in southern Poland A team of Polish scientists said Monday they have ...
The world has less than 20 years left to save the orangutan, according to conservationists who predict the charismatic red ape will become ...
Mabvuto Banda KARONGA, Malawi (Reuters) - The latest discovery of pre-historic tools and remains of hominids in Malawi's remote northern district of Karonga provides further proof that the area could be the cradle of humankind, a leading German researcher said. Professor Friedemann ...
Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists. She is one of the casualties of the boom ...
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History plans to open a hall next year dedicated to the story of human evolution over 6 million years, officials announced Wednesday. The nearly $21 million Hall of Human Origins will follow milestones in history — ...
Oldest hominid skeleton pushes back history of humankind a million years The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The skeleton of an early human who lived 4.4 million years ago shows that humans did not evolve from chimpanzee-like ancestors, researchers reported on Thursday. Instead, the missing link -- the common ancestor of both humans and modern apes ...
A 4.4 million year old skeleton of a female "ground ape" shows signs of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date, according to research out Thursday in the journal Science. The fragile remains of the small creature, ...
A 4.4 million year old skeleton of a female "ground ape" shows signs of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date, according to research out Thursday in the journal Science. The fragile remains of the small creature, ...
Titus the Gorilla King, who became the world's most famous mountain gorilla after starring in Dian Fossey's "Gorillas in the Mist" and a BBC documentary, has died in Rwanda at the ripe old age of 35. The Rwandan and national parks office ...
Archaeologists have discovered fibers used by prehistoric man a record 34,000 years ago to make clothes and rope, according to research published Thursday in the United States. The flax fibers, found during the excavation of a cave in Georgia, are the earliest ...
Computer animations of yawning chimpanzees provoke the same irresistible grins in real chimps, according to an unusual study released Wednesday. "Contagious yawning" is well known among humans, and earlier studies have shown that chimps are not immune to its suggestive influence either. ...
