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

A boys accidental trip over a fossil in South Africa uncovers the human missing link, Australopithecus sediba. New 2025 study ...

By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment ...

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

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

For over three decades, the badly crushed and distorted Yunxian 2 skull remained an enigma, its true significance hidden beneath layers of geological damage. The breakthrough came when researchers led ...

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...

Aboriginal Australian culture has long been recognized as humanity's oldest continuous living culture, with scientific literature estimating their arrival on the continent at 65,000 years ago. However ...

The police chiefs and mayors of New Britain and Farmington will hold a joint press conference Monday afternoon to provide an update on the discovery of a young girl’s human remains in New Britain.

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

A superb fairy-wren calls to a Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo. Brood parasites like cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave them behind for the host birds to raise. David Ongley / Cornell Lab of ...