Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French natural history museum were on opposite sides of issue. They hoped to ...

Could a newly discovered fossil in Egypt fundamentally change everything scientists currently know about human evolution?

A sweeping new geoarchaeological study has revealed how Egypt’s famed Karnak Temple complex rose from an island amid Nile floods to become one of the ancient world’s most enduring sacred centers. By ...