The two different species, our ancestors, even collected the same seashells - suggesting a cultural exchange that crossed the ...

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of ...

These systems have already been tested in search-and-rescue scenarios and for inspecting infrastructure, but only in dry ...

A virus that normally infects mice has produced Parkinson’s-like brain damage in rodents without any other intervention. In a ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Somewhere in a small eastern North Carolina town, the ground beneath your feet is older than anything your brain can ...

A UCLA study has identified a hidden Achilles' heel in aggressive small cell cancers that have resisted new treatments for ...

The human brain did not evolve to wake up with an alarm clock, check strangers’ achievements on social media, learn about the latest global disaster and calculate its social worth before breakfast.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...