Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, ...

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

Evolution has given the human body some odd parting gifts, like the appendix. People just don't eat as much tree bark as they used to.

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Giraffes are best known for their elegant necks, stretching high over the savannah like periscopes. We have some pretty good ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

In a recently published, PNAS study, professor Andreas Neider and his team found that crows and rhesus macaques take mental ...

By raising its heart closer to its head by means of long legs, the giraffe “saves” a net 5% of the energy it takes in from food. Over the course of a year, this energy saving would add up to more than ...

A fascinating fossil discovery in Kenya is changing how scientists see Paranthropus boisei, an ancient human relative that ...