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Rep. Tim Burchett, a US congressman, claims aliens have made contact with humans. Credit: kingofthebigmacs / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A Tennessee congressman has claimed that aliens have visited Earth ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our ...

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A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...