During the Miocene, Europe was home to a mysterious group of great apes known as Dryopithecini. Fossils discovered in France, Spain, and Austria reveal an extinct ape with features that blur the line ...

Fossils of Dryopithecus fontani from France, Spain, and Austria reveal a genus that may bridge Europe’s Miocene apes and Africa’s great apes. With gorilla-like faces but slender jaws, these primates ...

In November 1924 a blast was fired in a limestone quarry near Taungs in Bechuanaland, South Africa. In the material that tumbled to the foot of the cliff were fossil fragments from a cave which the ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...

DURING the last fifteen years scarcely a year has passed but a new skull has been discovered of a type of primitive man or of a higher ape allied to man's ancestors. We are thus getting a large series ...

Everyone’s seen Rudolph Zallinger’s “The March of Progress” illustration showcasing the evolution of humans: from early primate ape ancestor, Dryopithecus, and progressing toward modern man, Homo ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

Modern man, the only living species of a once numerous human family, is as definitely pigeonholed in the animal world by taxonomists (biological classifiers) as is Sylvilagus floridanus, the ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady march toward increasingly better beings, but this common narrative overlooks the litany of evolutionary quirks throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. A new ...