Two arms? Two legs? Two eyes and a head to hold them? Ugh. Boring! We’ve been doing that for literally the past 300,000 years. The humane genome needs to shake things up a bit. Can’t we grow ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Will Tracy and producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' latest masterpiece.

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...