New evidence from Laili rockshelter on Timor hints at a rapid, large-scale human arrival 44,000 years ago.

Finding and retrieving the bones of this extinct kangaroo relative – a ‘holy grail’ fossil – took hours of squeezing through narrow passages.

Despite cold temperatures, water was relatively abundant in much of the southern hemisphere during ice ages.

What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.