Those were venturesome steps for some ape-like creatures long ago in Africa. Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion, for reasons that elude paleoanthropologists. These ...

Discovered in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, Homo habilis lived between 2.3 and 1.65 million years ago. Known as the “Handy Man,” this species made crude stone tools and bridged the gap between ...

In Nature of July 4, 1925, p. 11, Sir Arthur Keith has attempted to show first that I called the Taungs skull a “missing link,” and secondly, that it is not a “missing link”. As a matter of fact, ...

The names of human ancestors are now on an asteroid map. The geological features of an oddly shaped asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft now have official names, and like the mission's moniker, ...

A trove of bones hidden deep within a South African cave represents a new species of human ancestor, scientists announced Thursday in the journal eLife. Homo naledi, as they call it, appears very ...

ICSE Biology Half-Yeary Sample Paper: Preparing well for the ICSE Class 10 Biology Half Yearly Exam 2025 requires regular practice and familiarity with the type of questions that may be asked in the ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Oct. 11, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the ...

Editor's note: This article is part of a special package written for the 50th anniversary of the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old A. afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." About 3.2 million ...