Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

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

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

Ancient ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus reveal how early humans combined climbing and upright walking, reshaping the ...

Learn more about the human tailbone and how, even though we may not have a strict need for it anymore, it still helps us with ...

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 ...

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

Researchers analysed 2 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus teeth from South Africa, uncovering ancient proteins that ...