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

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Evolution has given the human body some odd parting gifts, like the appendix. People just don't eat as much tree bark as they used to.

The first example of Paranthropus was discovered in South Africa by Dr Robert Broom in 1938. Its name means “beside man” and ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

An international team of biologists, including those at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, have discovered that the ...

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

A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...

When Nasir took charge in 2012, ACI Group had initially tasked him with winding down the struggling venture. Instead, he inherited a brand in deep crisis ...