Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Atsukan is used as a general term for hot sake, but it specifically means sake heated to around 122°F, the ideal temperature ...

It wasn’t a bad date, it was just… average minus? Tom* was clean, polite, and said nothing that sent me running for the hills ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn't built for modern diets, which ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...