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

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

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

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

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

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

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 ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

The discovery of chemical signatures of lead in hominid fossils challenges our understanding of ancient environmental ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists are casting doubt on the headline-making study Birds Make an Alarm Call That ...

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.