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They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

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A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

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The town’s unofficial motto is “Ithaca is Gorges,” which is both a terrible pun and completely accurate. Within the city limits alone, you’ll find over 150 waterfalls, which seems excessive until you ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.

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