However, humans will go extinct at some time, because extinction is what happens to all species. However, there are signs that humans will go extinct soon, in geological terms. In The Decline and Fall ...

How did the great modern scientific adventure related to the discovery and study of celestial bodies and the cosmos begin?

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

The remains will be presented alongside Selam, the fossil of a baby Australopithecus who was about 100,000 years older than Lucy and found in the same place 25 years later. This historic exhibition ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Although we don’t know why they ran, we now know how they ran – and that’s thanks to new analysis of ‘Lucy’, the name for the collection of 3.2-million-year-old australopithecine bones first found in ...