The last woolly mammoths on Earth died about 4,000 years ago, on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, and nobody knows why. For most of the past decade the answer...
In 2003, on the Indonesian island of Flores, archaeologists dug six metres down through the floor of a cave called Liang Bua and found an almost complete human skeleton. It...
For a long time, we imagined the human family as a set of separate branches — Neanderthals here, Denisovans there, our own ancestors on a line of their own, each...
