Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, ...

Early human relatives experienced risky childbirth due to pelvic shape, revealing deep evolutionary roots of birth difficulty.

More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...

A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

A new pill for dogs is making headlines for its potential to slow ageing. Early trials show promise, but experts say more data is needed before approval.

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

Hominins may have transitioned to walking on two feet over 7 million years ago.

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

Learn how cocaine, caffeine, and common painkillers are entering Bahamian waters, how they ended up in shark blood, and what ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are preparing not just to visit the Moon, but to live and work there for ...