A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Jonathan Gerlach was arrested Jan. 6 at the cemetery with a bag containing human remains of children and skulls, along with ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Genetic evidence suggests the last shared ancestor of present-day humans, as well as ancient Neanderthals and Denisovans, ...

Effective management of feline oral health requires a dual approach: rigorous home hygiene and professional veterinary ...

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

Researchers have discovered 195 genomic regions jointly associated with schizophrenia and osteoporosis-related traits, ...

Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Men, Magneto, supervillain and CEO of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, wants to destroy humanity – and in the first X-Men ...