The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Language has enabled humans to innovate, communicate, and thrive globally, with over 7,000 languages spoken today and ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

That’s the compelling argument made by Caleb Scharf—author and senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA Ames Research in ...

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

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

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.