If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

An Unseen Threat Picture this: you're walking down a dimly lit street at night, and every shadow seems to move. Your heart rate quickens, your muscles tense, and suddenly you're scanning every corner ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

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

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...

It’s the Kingdom of the calcite skull. A horned hominid skull might sound like something out of Greek mythology, but it actually could be a separate species of human ancestor that lived alongside ...