Talented, cool, and always dressed to kill, the South African superstar—one of Glamour’s 2025 Women of the Year—embodies the ...

The recent analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone in Ethiopia showed that the ancient species Ardipithecus ramidus may ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To help settle the matter, the study authors compared the specimen’s talus – or ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

Analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone supports the hypothesis that the earliest humans evolved from an ape-like ...

The energy on opening day felt less like a post-Brexit correction and more like the city snapping back into its golden ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

Source: An ancient tradition helps girls in Zimbabwe fight child marriages | AP News In rural Zimbabwe, girls are reviving an ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

The uplift of East Africa during the Miocene epoch dramatically transformed the region's climate and ecosystems, promoting ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human intelligence.