China’s fossils are rewriting our human story New fossil analyses from China are challenging what we thought we knew about human evolution. The Yunxian skulls, once thought to be Homo erectus, are now ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Kangaroos thrive on tough grass using thick enamel instead of complex teeth, revealing an unexpected path in evolution.

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, ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

A new titanosaur species, Phosphatotitan khouribgaensis, has been unearthed in Morocco, dating back approximately 70 million ...

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...

Early humans from 1.6 million years ago, ancestors of modern humans, have been found to have possessed the ability to ...

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...