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 ...

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

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

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

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

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 ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

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

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

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

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 ...