Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

An Unseen Threat Picture this: you're walking down a dimly lit street at night, and every shadow seems to move. Your heart ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, ...

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...