Tim Birkhead on great auks and their extraordinary story of evolution, exploitation and de-extinction across the years ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team ...

Primates possess special anatomical structures in their throats called vocal membranes, allowing for yodeling at higher ...

Monkeys are the world’s best yodellers, according to new research. Rather than Austria or Switzerland, scientists say the ...

WashU students have advocated for the repatriation of the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection and the renouncement ...

A new study has found that the world's finest yodellers aren't from Austria or Switzerland, but the rainforests of Latin America. The research provides significant new insights into the diverse vocal ...

The monkeys' "ultra-yodels" had frequency leaps that were five times larger than human frequency changes, often exceeding ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

A recent investigation led by voice scientist Christian T. Herbst from the University of Vienna and colleagues from Anglia ...