Animated three-dimensional illustrations present the evolution of mankind from the earliest animal in the earliest days of life on Earth. siris_sil_468262 ...

For a long time, scientists believed that modern people evolved in a specific "cradle of humankind" in East Africa, some 200,000 years ago. But more recently, researchers used high-tech methods to ...

In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor - a remarkably intact skull of a previously ...