This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree. Christopher Bae, a professor in the department of anthropology at ...

A similar story manifested in 1973 when a lone acacia tree, standing as the only one in about 250 miles of the Nigerian Sahara desert through generations, was uprooted due to mere human ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...