A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts ...

Suddenly the piston, coupling and connecting rods of the steam engine sprang to life. The wheels that had been arrested and ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Land reform in South Africa has followed a familiar script—conquest, displacement, and struggle. The names change, but the fights remain the same.

The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

A cooperation experiment shows for the first time that animals, as well as people, are capable of communicating new ...