Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Adolescent chimps are, in some respects, rather similar to their human counterparts. They live with mum until well into their teens, are sometimes a bit cheeky and, being highly social animals ...

Marienberg, Cameroon: Adolescent chimps are, in some respects, rather similar to their human counterparts. They live with mum until well into their teens, are sometimes a bit cheeky and ...

It is dry season and Hiila, a savannah chimpanzee, walks determinedly towards her target ... These observations gleaned from the study are relevant to understanding the evolution of intelligence, ...

As she worked at her computer, the results revealed the sample she was examining contained human DNA. There was nothing so unusual about that in itself: at the time, the ancient DNA (aDNA ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...

Bone fragments and weapons, as well as destroyed settlements and mass graves, can tell archeologists a lot about the violence of the past. But when did humanity first embrace organized killing — and ...

Al Jazeera takes a closer look at events in Gaza over 2024, as Israel continued and escalated its brutal war. Published On 31 Dec 202431 Dec 2024 Israel’s war on Gaza: 12 months, 12 pictures ...

A recent study conducted by the Weizmann Institute of Science explored how individuals and groups—both ants and humans—approach the same geometrical puzzle. The research aimed to assess who excels at ...