Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

Summary: A global study of vertebrates reveals that body temperature is the key driver behind brain size evolution.

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

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

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Alex is said to have mastered 100 words and even asked questions – something that’s almost unheard of in non-human animals.

JERUSALEM | Xinhua | An international research team has discovered that the total movement of humans is about 40 times ...

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

Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

In a recently published, PNAS study, professor Andreas Neider and his team found that crows and rhesus macaques take mental ...

Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than 7,000 kilometers a year. The Arctic tern flies from pole to pole in its ...