Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

Uncover 25 shocking new discoveries about our ancient human relatives. From Dragon Man to new Homo sapiens origins, rethink ...

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some ...

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

The record of humanity is incomplete, but researchers discovered a well-preserved skull which calls into question assumptions ...

The study focused on two unusually complete Neanderthal pelvises. The Dederiyeh infant, though only a toddler, already ...

Discover why some paleoanthropologists are calling for the reclassification of all human species and close relatives, like ...

The idea that universes evolve like organisms sat on the fringes of theoretical physics for decades. Then, a Substack post ...

For years, American universities have been lowering standards in pursuit of racial diversity. In some cases, they blatantly ...

Researchers used a new method to investigate past interbreeding with Homo sapiens that doesn't require ancient DNA. The technique identified areas of living humans' genomes that came from unknown ...

Two leg bones dredged from the Taiwan Strait suggest that at least some Denisovans were exceptionally tall, powerfully built, ...