From fleas to mosquitoes, there's no shortage of organisms we like to consider pests – and, not surprisingly, the majority are insects, which account for up to 90% of animals on the planet. But thanks ...

Homo sapiens might have been the dominant species on the planet for millennia, but it wasn't always that way. When the first Homo sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, our ancestors were just one ...

A 1.8 million-year-old jaw has been discovered in Orozmani, Georgia, reigniting research into the very first humans to leave Africa. This bone fragment could represent one of the oldest traces of Homo ...