Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

Scientists extracted proteins from Homo naledi teeth for the first time and found evidence that only females were buried.

A new Science Advances study suggests the Flores "hobbits" were scavengers, not hunters, reshaping scientists' understanding ...

Scientists explore whether humor influenced language evolution, suggesting "survival of the wittiest" shaped communication ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Alaska are changing how scientists view mammal life and migration in the ancient Arctic.

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

The publicity posters for the 1955 cult monster movie Tarantula! displayed a giant spider rampaging across the Arizona desert ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

A Window Into the Evolution of Speech Because spoken language leaves no direct fossil evidence, scientists have few ways to trace its earliest origins. Laughter, however, is evolutionarily much older ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Zhu Min introduces the discovery of the oldest known bony fish fossil at a conference on research results on tracing the early evolutionary history of "from fish to humans". Sun Zifa/China News ...