Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

The debate over human uniqueness is shifting as data has emerged suggesting that other animals can also generate cultural ...

Real-skeleton biology models are teaching aids. They reveal, among other things, how an animal moved, where it lived, if it got into fights, the shape of its teeth (if any) and what it ate – or if a ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

Bone can heal itself, but not always in the ways we expect. Some animals regrow entire limbs. Others, like humans, can only ...

Divided into four sections, visitors can follow the timeline to explore the themes of human origins, ancient ecosystems, ...

Researchers found evidence that the joints evolved as the species became active predators with jaws and mobile skeletons.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...