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.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists are casting doubt on the headline-making study Birds Make an Alarm Call That ...

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 ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

The discovery of chemical signatures of lead in hominid fossils challenges our understanding of ancient environmental ...