A new AI study finds leopards hunted early humans in East Africa, challenging long-held ideas about when our ancestors became ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

A new site in one of the most important basins for humanity’s evolution has provided evidence of occupation over an ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...