The new series of Who Do You Think You Are? launches on BBC One and iPlayer in spring 2025. Produced by Wall to Wall Media, ...

New study shows you run faster and more efficiently when your calf muscles are strong, and your Achilles tendons are springy ...

Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution. Researchers who found what they ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

It embodies the common ancestor revered by the Dong people. Sama Festival was included on the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics.

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans ... the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling.

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9-3.9 million years ago. The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic ...

Researchers have now documented chimps coming up with rudimentary wooden spears, and capuchin monkeys of South America (unintentionally) producing stone flakes that were identical to those produced by ...