Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.

A replica of a Homo erectus skull. (Attie Gerber/iStockphoto/Getty Images) The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ...

An ancient viral insertion silences LINC00662 in chimpanzee cells, while the gene is active during early human brain ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one ...

A 120-million-year-old fossil forgotten in a museum for nearly a century has revealed a terrifying new dinosaur that may have ...

As early humans spread across the continents, they encountered wildlife that looked very different from the animals living ...

The Cambrian explosion was a major diversification of animal life that unfolded early in the Cambrian period, which began ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake ...

a group of scientists has just made an important discovery without digging it up, instead searching through stored drawers ...

Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course. The findings shows the Barnes ...

A new species of dinosaur—a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger—has been discovered by a UCL-led team from a ...