Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful historian, so it took only a few seconds to place it: the stench of the rat ...

A wintry mess was bearing down on mid-Atlantic states Tuesday with forecasts of significant snow and ice accumulations prompting warnings of potential power outages. The National Weather Service said ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

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But it's never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree. Christopher Bae ... brain that's bigger than that of our species, ...

It's long been thought our species was unique in its ability to adapt to harsh climates like bone-dry deserts or thick-set rainforests. Now a new study suggests at least some of our ancestors were ...