Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

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

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History sits in one of the most culturally rich neighborhoods in Ohio. You’ve got the ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

Human evolution is generally explained through changes in brain size, locomotion or tool use, but new research from Wits University suggests that gum disease and changes in facial structure may have ...

Why do men have an Adam's apple? A biologist explains the puberty hormone surge behind it, the sexual-selection theory and ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...