Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

60 Minutes producers Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados discuss the evolution of their 5-year investigation into Havana Syndrome, which led them to what one source calls "a receipt" for acoustic ...

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

Courtesy of Zhu Youan. Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of bony fish dating back about 436 million years, providing key evidence that hel ...

Homo juluensis was identified as a possible new human species that lived in eastern Asia about 300,000 years ago and vanished ...

In a paper in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, researchers argue that a 7.2-million-year-old femur from the Azmaka site preserves a blend of traits consistent with an early, transitional ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

This shift, researchers say, marks a climatic tipping point—and it may have shaped the evolution of our species. “Things were ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

“O’clock” is a shortened form of the phrases “of the clock” and “of clock,” which people began using to communicate the time ...

Called “Lamarckian Inheritance,” the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations.

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.