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 analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

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

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

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

In 1994, researchers in South Africa discovered a handful of small, human-like foot bones while sifting through an old box of fossils. They later found the rest of the skeleton in a cave, though the ...

There’s a reason why ancient wisdom never truly grows old. Long before science tried to trace the journey of life through fossils and genes, Indian philosophy had already told that story through ...

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

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

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...