Scientists have tracked down a gene in living people from Nigeria and Sierra Leone that does not fit previously discovered branches of humans.
Victoria's Education Department says only students who are confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus or had close contact with anyone who was infected need to stay away from school for 14 days.
It turns out our neighbouring planet may be even more Earth-like than we knew.
Only a few years ago,scientists believed modern humans evolved in Africa,and then left to colonise the human-free world.
Dating back at least 44,000 years,the Indonesian images depict half-human,half-animal figures and are older than any cave art found in Europe.
The animal was buried in a lump of frozen mud in Russia,its fur,whiskers and body fully intact. It could help bridge the connection between dogs and wolves.
Researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm,Sweden,announced this week that extensive DNA tests have so far been unable to confirm whether the animal was a dog or a wolf.
Fossils unearthed in Germany of a remarkable ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago may dramatically alter the understanding of our evolutionary origins.
The remarkable potential discovery of the ancestral homeland of modern humans is being hailed as a new chapter in the story of us.
What could a man with millions in the bank,a private jet and high-flying friends possibly want from life? More of it.
An"astonishing"discovery in WA's Pilbara region has shed light on some of the earliest forms of life on Earth,and pointed the way to finding life elsewhere.