In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

New research suggests upright walking and brain growth shaped human right-handedness. This evolutionary process began when ...

About 90 per cent of humans across all cultures favour their right hand for tasks, and this dominance of right-handedness may have started when early human ancestors began walking on two legs, a new ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually smaller than us, in both height and body mass. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals ...

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.

300,000 units. According to the author, a former senior curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, this is the estimated number of items typically found in American households. He argues that ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared similar survival strategies, stone tool technologies and symbolic traditions ...

This postdoctoral researcher explores auditory nervous system development by studying the auditory brainstem, ion channels, and neuron modeling.

A Strange Ancient Foot Reveals a Hidden Human Cousin Nov. 28, 2025 Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species ...

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