(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

Geochemist Tina Lüdecke stands next to "Little Foot", a remarkably well-preserved Australopithecus skeleton that was discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves and is considered to be the most complete ...

This artist's rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images show ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Study: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record As early humans spread from lush ...

For decades, scientists have tried to pinpoint whenearly human ancestors transitioned from a plant-based diet to regular meat ...