Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigger than females Proteins from a collection of fossils hint at sex and genetic differences in P. robustus ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first humans.

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.

Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants, From Small Swimming Creatures to Shovel-Tusked Beasts A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years ...

Ancient African Communities Living 1,800 Miles Away From Each Other Making Identical Beads Was ‘No Coincidence’ The impulse to connect, communicate, and express identity is as old as humanity ...

Here are six ancient African nations celebrated for their rich legacies and enduring cultural significance: 1. LIBERIA: Liberia is unique as Africa’s oldest republic, founded in the early 19th ...

Most plants get their coloration from pigments, but an endangered South African cycad gets its unique silvery-blue hue from wax crystals and an underlying chlorophyll-rich layer, according to a recent ...

Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...