The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...

Research of the human genome has revealed an odd hidden code in our DNA. Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe this could be evidence of alien manipulation, in this scene from Season 13, "The Artificial ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later human species, including Homo sapiens.

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...