Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

22.Anacondas are absolutely gigantic. Here's what one looks like in the wild: I'd only ever seen one in that documentary with ...

Gorillas and chimpanzees, though sharing DNA and habitats, exhibit distinct characteristics. Gorillas, the largest primates, are peaceful herbivores l ...

Said to grow in South America and Africa, the ya-te-veo is a massive carnivorous plant that makes the Venus flytrap look like an herbivore. According to folklore, this legendary cryptid is a "terrible ...

This gave directions leading to human remains which were later identified as being Medin. The majority of her remains had been found 45 miles from her home, and her skull nearly 100 miles away.

"African human skull, early 20th century, 2,000 euros." Adverts like this can be seen on social media. The trade is legal in Germany, even when the skulls date from the German colonial era.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the ... our closest living relatives. This mystery ape lived millions of years ago; at some point, the population split into two.

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — A forensic genetic genealogy team has uncovered a mystery behind a partial human skull found 32 years ago on a beach in Northern California. The woman’s skull ...

(Credit: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Then in 1993, a man walking the beach near Trinidad Head found a partial human skull and turned it over to authorities. DNA testing at that time did not ...

Part of a human skull discovered on a Northern California beach more than 32 years ago was just identified as a woman who went missing five years earlier, authorities said. In 1993, a man found ...