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 ...

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.

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

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 ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

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

Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

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 ...