Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Are humans evolving to lose their smallest digits? Experts debunk the viral claim, explaining why pinky fingers and tiny toes ...

Most people know wisdom teeth as the unwanted guests of adulthood. They usually arrive late, often bring pain, and in many ...

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

According to a study published today in the journal Science, a team at Trinity College Dublin has identified the oldest viral ...

(Anatoli Myshlyaev/Moment/Getty Images) Smallpox is an age-old scourge with a terrible history. Caused by the variola virus, ...

Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye ...

The researchers have proposed that nearly 600 million years ago, early vertebrate ancestors passed through a "cyclops-like" ...

Camarones Pacific coast in northern Chile near the Inca archaeological site of Camarones 9, where two human mummies dating to ...

On 28 July 2026, the Shenzhen Natural History Museum opened its doors, marking the establishment of the first major ...