Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Somewhere in the deep past, long before cities, scriptures or even structured speech, an ancestor of ours did something ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

A newly discovered ape ancestor in Egypt suggests great apes may have evolved beyond East Africa, reshaping understanding of ...

Early humans were quarrying stone as far back as 220,000 years ago, revealing surprisingly advanced planning and resource use.

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about our origins. Named __Masripithecus ...

Biologists say the appendix isn’t useless after all. Evolution kept reinventing it, and it may help support gut immunity and ...

A large-scale mural by Syrian artist Bashir Bashir is drawing attention at the National Museum of Damascus, where his ongoing ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...