A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the first direct evidence that fragments of ‘proto-Earth’—ancient ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Paleontologists may have discovered when plant-eating dinosaurs evolved their long necks after a new species of ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

Fundamentalists don't necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards. One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher ...