The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

The New York Racing Association is preparing to pass the torch to a newly reconstructed Belmont Park and goodbye to Aqueduct, ...

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay rose fast, fell hard, and evolved. Here’s how he’s reshaped his leadership, ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

The big-money signings have hardly hit the ground running in the Premier League after a new trend, and Mikel Arteta and ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...