Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social behavior.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Ronan the sea lion can dance to a lot of different songs, but there is something about “Boogie Wonderland,” by Earth, Wind and Fire that really gets her going. It didn’t take more than a few days for ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...