A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...