Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

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

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

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

Human evolution spans millions of years, from early hominins walking upright to the emergence of modern Homo sapiens. This complete timeline explores every major turning point.

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Evolutionary theory has revolutionized the way we understand humans – yet more than a century after Darwin's ideas reshaped biology, the female form of our species remains largely a mystery.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...