A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock ...

The early phase of drug development relies on the examination of the efficacy and safety of therapeutic agents in animal models. Due to their close genetic and physiological relation to humans, ...

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

A hybrid form of mpox has been identified in the UK. Health professionals are not surprised that the sexually transmitted ...

Chinese researchers claim to have isolated and replicated human genes linked to intelligence, with the aim of testing these on monkeys. The leaders of the ...

A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...