Analysis - The fastest animal on land is the cheetah, capable of reaching top speeds of 104 kilometres per hour. In the water, the fastest animals are yellowfin tuna and wahoo, which can reach speeds ...

But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see mapped out in the infographic below. The first known fossils of human ...

Maya Kunchur looks at the world of Lord of the Rings from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist ...

Later, when describing the discovery in the journal Nature, the team named the new species Homo floresiensis [PDF]. This ...

Twenty years ago, scientists found a three-foot skeleton on a tropical island. Where this human species fits in our ...

Homo floresiensis and some of the strangely sized animals that lived in their habitat (Image: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo). Any number of animals in the wild may become isolated from ...

This is the terrifying Sea Horror Homo Sabara, and it is more than happy to use its many tentacles to cause havoc and have some heroes for its next meal. If you find yourself needing some help to ...