The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in human evolution. New evidence that early humans were deliberately making fire ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Modern species of bears living near humans for extended periods show evidence of genetic changes making them less aggressive ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...