The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar ...

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

Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time.

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body ...

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

WashU students have advocated for the repatriation of the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection and the renouncement of its primary collector, former head of WashU’s Anatomy Department and ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

It was in 2013, in South Africa's Rising Star cave system, that archaeologists first discovered the remains of H. naledi.

Divided into four sections, visitors can follow the timeline to explore the themes of human origins, ancient ecosystems, ...

Found on the southern coast of Peru, this amphibious creature had a tail and hooves and was the oldest preserved fossil of ...