Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of Graecopithecus freybergi. (Velizar Simeonovski) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature braved ...

Upper and lower jaw fossils from Nikiti in northern Greece, dated to about 8 to 9 million years ago, were reanalyzed and suggested to belong to a previously unknown ape species. The find is used to ...

What if the origins of our lineage were not where scientists have long believed them to be? A new study suggests that a very ancient primate discovered in the Balkans may belong to the earliest ...

Around 7 million years ago, a little creature braved wildcats and hyenas to cross the floodplains of Bulgaria – and she may have done so on two legs. A recently described fossil femur offers evidence ...

An international team, including the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen, has discovered a 7.2 million-year-old Graecopithecus femur in Bulgaria An international ...

WASHINGTON — Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago in the woodlands of East Africa. She spent most of her time in the trees. She stood about 4 feet tall, weighed 110 pounds, and had long arms, short legs ...

Early Homo sapiens and their ancestors were consuming psilocybin-containing mushrooms, research suggests, and it likely shaped their consciousness. The psychedelic compound boosts connectivity in ...