Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a ...

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 ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...