There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

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In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...

The Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although they are long extinct, their genes still live in us today. Neanderthals were ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...