Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

There’s a place in Florence, Mississippi where bargain hunters and nostalgia seekers converge in a wonderland of yesteryear’s treasures – 49 South Antique & Flea Market stands as a monument to the art ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

Ethan was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), a cancer that is a death sentence for the vast majority of people who get it. DMG refers to cancerous tumors that grow on the thalamus, brainstem ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...