Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

Mind-blowing science books offer a staggering look at the secret logic of fungi, the evolution of the human mind, and the ...

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Research led by Dr Daniel Pincheira-Donoso from the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast has launched ...

The controlled use of fire is one of the reasons our species was able to survive and spread around the world. But the newly unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making shows that we were not the ...