Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

Best friends Evie and Noa have watched films together since they first met five years ago. But are they only there for the love of movies?

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a thousand post-human species.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works - ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Two species of disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found in the UK, according to research. Aedes aegypti, also known as the Egyptian mosquito, and Aedes albopictus, also known as the (Asian) tiger ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.