From Kurzgesagt, an hour-long animated music video that shows all of human history in an hour. So here’s an experiment: e ...

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

A conversation with Heilung co-founder Kai Uwe Faust about all the ways regalia is a vital component to their ceremonies, and ...

Patrick Mahomes injured his knee during the Dec. 14 Kansas City Chiefs match against the Los Angeles Chargers. Orthopedic ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

Excited scientists announced Wednesday they have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically pushing back the timeline for when our ancient ...

Humans reached, settled, and thrived on Mindoro and other Philippine islands far earlier than most scientific timelines for allow for the evolution of human civilization. These people did not wait for ...

The findings, published Thursday, are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990 and have the potential to resolve the long-standing “Muddle in the Middle” of human ...

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 ...

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 said Friday. The ...

A million-year-old human skull discovered in China may push back the origin of modern humans by at least half a million years, according to a new study published in Science. The fossil, known as ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.