Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

Penguins do not react to people the way most wild animals do. When a human appears on an Antarctic shoreline, many penguins ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Mind-blowing science books offer a staggering look at the secret logic of fungi, the evolution of the human mind, and the ...

Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

A study has revealed that humanity’s footprint in the Amazon rainforest is reshaping the forest in ways scientists didn't ...

Historians once believed human beings created dogs by catching wolf pups and breeding the tamest ones together, but that would have been risky business. Wolves don’t tame easily, and it would have ...