Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. ... 'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not': Physical Forces Encouraged Evolution of Multicellular ...

Studying this breakthrough technology, researchers have gained new insights into this Lower Paleolithic phase of human evolution ... sorts of food in the African savanna, from the grasslands ...

In northwestern Namibia, lions move like ghosts across sand dunes, bone-dry riverbeds, and thorny plains. These are the ...

Imagine standing in the heart of the African savanna, the air thick with anticipation and the chorus of wild sounds. Suddenly, a sharp cry rings out from the treetops—a warning, an alarm, a desperate ...

Even the vegetation is reptilian: Crocodile trees with spiky bark sprout from volcanic soils, while Lontar palms tower over the upland savanna ... that the dragons had evolved to their current ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

The prevalence of seagrass throughout human civilisation has fostered spiritual and cultural relations with these underwater ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...