The five-part series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

A decomposing human body can release a significant amount of nutrients into the soil, enriching it for plant growth.

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Students and parents alike are making the most of their weekend by dropping by the Star Education Fair 2025 in Johor Baru on ...

Paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner explores the superpower of projecting images and words that has allowed us to make a ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggesting her parents might have belonged to different species ...

These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

An average maturing tree under optimal conditions can transport up to 10,000 gallons of water only to capture about 1,000 usable gallons for the production of food and adding to its biomass.

Pine is a coniferous tree in the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. There are about 111 species of pines worldwide, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species. Pines are ...