Primatologists weigh in on the debate that has ignited the internet: Could 100 humans beat a single silverback gorilla in physical combat?

Some animals seem out of place at first glance. Sometimes that can be chalked up to the limits of imagination, but other ...

Hominids have been using fire for at a million years — but scientists have found that humans were grilling down during the ...

The creature resembles Baby Yoda and is an adorably fierce creation of puppetry, a handmade beast in a film that keeps CGI firmly in the background scenery. The Ochi is as feral as Yuri herself, and ...

Back before there were cameras, if people wanted to capture and share something never seen before, they’d have to make a ...

The eccentrics of the new right aren’t rebelling against our political regime – they are its twisted successors.

The world of Gary Larson's Far Side is often a deadly place, so it's no surprise that there are so many ghosts wandering ...

The genetic information contained in the genomes of six species of hominids has been decoded. Hominids, such as chimpanzees and bonobos, are primates belonging to the superfamily Hominidae and are ...

Such deluges created lakes, rivers and lush grasslands, inviting mammals and hominids to migrate there over time, says archaeologist Michael Petraglia of Griffith University in Brisbane ...

While evidence exists of earlier sea crossings by hominids elsewhere — such as humans arriving in Australia at least 40,000 years ago­ — those instances appear to be one-offs, possibly ...

The billionaires club has never been bigger—or richer. Here’s who’s up, who’s down, who’s off the list and why it matters more than ever. The world’s billionaires have always been rich ...