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Brown, cannibalism felt like the perfect expression of female rage — a visceral form of protest against the pressure women ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

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Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

Supergirl,” starring Milly Alcock, is only the latest dud of a superhero movie with a woman in the lead. They deserve better.

The standard sci-fi alien is a human actor with ridged forehead prosthetics, human motivations, human relationship structures, and human narrative roles — and the species that break from that template ...

A twisted Hungarian hospital worker allegedly stole and stockpiled human remains from his workplace and abandoned cemeteries — and admitted to eating some of them. The 30-year-old man from Budapest ...

A fossilized Homo naledi skull Hawks et al. via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Deep within South Africa’s Rising Star cave system is an open space called the Dinaledi Chamber. It’s accessible ...

The Progression of Man apparently wasn’t as gradual as once thought. UK researchers found that our ancestors experienced a rapid growth spurt between 2 and 2.5 million years ago, potentially due to ...