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

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

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

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

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

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

The human body is often described as a miracle of biology—but from a doctor's perspective, it's also full of bizarre ...

Researchers have put forth a theory that humans are no longer subject to natural selection for evolution, but instead that ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

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" ...

Turns out, one of the world's oldest staple foods may have done more than keep people fed. A 2026 study found that Indigenous Peruvian Andean populations have the highest known number of AMY1 gene ...