An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

Researchers analysed 2 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus teeth from South Africa, uncovering ancient proteins that ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical ...

Therefore, female birds have a greater genetic vulnerability, which explains why males tend to live longer in this class. But ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

A professor at Idaho State University, he said he didn’t “believe” the creature exists. He said he concluded it exists.

Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...