Magician and prankster Rahat Hossain shares outtakes from skeleton driver prank moments.

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

Fossils found at Kow Swamp, Australia, initially suggested archaic human presence due to robust skulls. However, later ...

Learn how proteins from six Homo erectus teeth, collected using a less invasive method, are helping fill key gaps in our understanding of this ancient human ancestor. Studying the proteins from the ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

How did early human ancestors obtain their food? It may sound like a trivial question, but it has significant implications ...

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered new information suggesting a potential connection between Homo ...

Human brains have been shrinking since prehistoric times, some studies suggest. Whether this is true and why it has happened ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.

What started as a regular field trip with his scientist father turned into one of the biggest discoveries in human evolution ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...