Margaret Atwood has an eye for dystopia, and her MaddAdam trilogy of novels doesn’t stint on bad news. Humanity has trashed ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

This creature is said to possess the 'physical and mental attributes necessary' to evolve into the next civilisation-building ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

“In the beginning there was chaos,” a vocodered child’s voice intones as this work gets under way. And, in terms of plotting, the chaos continues in Wayne McGregor’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s ...

Things seldom work out for the characters of Gary Larson's The Far Side, so it makes sense there are plenty of comics worthy ...

The marine invertebrates are said to possess the "physical and mental attributes necessary" to evolve into the next ...

The alligator’s name is “Darth Gator” and he certainly lives up to it. Thanks to training, you have only to play the Darth ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

The Indonesian archipelago has a long history of human habitation, with evidence of early hominids dating back over a million ...