Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role. They say the evolution of this singular ability ...

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts ...

The fossilized remains were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, a site renowned for its wealth of hominid ...

"The presence of such species provides more proof of Western Ghats being a rich and biodiverse region across all organismal taxa. Zooplankton occurrences vary with their responses to human ...

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

Carved with stone tools out of mammoth ivory, the tiny head measures just 1.9 inches (4.8 centimeters) tall and 1 inch (2.4 cm) wide. The sculpture appears to represent a woman's face, with ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

An alien bird species has landed in large parts of northern Italy, putting local wildlife at risk. The African sacred ibis is an invasive species that is thought to have invaded after it escaped ...

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins - the formal name for species in the human lineage - who ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticised Donald Trump in a scathing statement, saying the US president is going to "wipe out the human species because of greed.” The post came after Petro ...

Researchers, along with Indigenous Awajún community members have described 27 new-to-science species including a squirrel ... in a region with significant human populations is extraordinary ...