Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science ...

Imagine if the first ape-man who discovered fire was immediately told to put it out. FIRE APE: Look at this! Fire! Heat! We ...

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...

From the first stone tools to global migration, human evolution is a story of adaptation, resilience, and change. Fossils, artifacts, and genetic clues reveal how early hominins walked upright, ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

The death of Ed Baldwin in "Home", the third episode of "For All Mankind"'s fifth season, was a symbolic moment for the Apple ...

An international team has released EVApeCognition, an open-access dataset compiling 18 years of cognitive test results from ...