She is a megastar in the history of humankind. She is affectionately called Lucy, which likely rings a bell with many people.

A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Travel back in time with Stacker through some of the most impressive archeological discoveries in the world, according to ...

In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Was Lucy not our direct ancestor after all? Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia confirm the assumption that there were other early humans in addition to her species.

Researchers have newly identified a huge apex predator that terrorised early humans and laid in wait for its prey ...

But, if a robot needs more brainpower, it can draw it from a local server via Wi-Fi. A robot’s A.I., like most computer ...

Learn how fossils show human ancestors did not grow bigger in a straight line, but split into larger and smaller evolutionary ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

There is a special gallery inside the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi where visitors slow down, lower their voices and often fall silent. In front of them, carefully lit and disarmingly small, lies ...