Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal announced on Saturday a personal investment of $25 million to launch Continue Research, a scientific collective focused on extending healthy human lifespan through ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, ...

When Ella al-Shamahi went to college, she thought she'd be able to prove Darwin's theory of evolution was wrong. Instead, she was convinced the science was right.

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

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

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

EctoLife’s concept facility imagines rows of artificial wombs capable of growing thousands of babies at once. ‘Not Constitutional’: Trump Threatens Blue Slip Suit ...

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward against gravity.

A group of scientists proposes that modern humans began their global migration from the southern coast of Africa, rather than eastern Africa. Leveraging marine resources and advanced tools, Homo ...