A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...