Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surprise, surprise! Will Smith dropped her official debut album today (Dec 11) without warning. The 15-track project’s material ...

It’s been 4.4 million years since a female now nicknamed Ardi lived in eastern Africa, but she still knows how to make an entrance. Analyses of her partial skeleton and the remains of at least 36 of ...

As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus — ...

‘Ardi,’ the 4.4 million-year-old skeleton recently found in Ethiopia, will completely change the story of early humans, UA anthropologists said. The fossil has been assigned to the genus Ardipithecus ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

Tarzan swinging from tree to tree might seem like a Hollywood attempt at imagining the life of primitive men, but new findings suggest our ancient ancestors really were swingers. The study seemingly ...

Newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test. The footprints are approximately 5.7 million years old and were made at a time ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...