The main "first" of this mission was that they were the first people to orbit around the planet's poles. No other human has ...

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

Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique ...

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.

A genetic mutation in horses that would typically halt protein production has become a molecular asset. Researchers at Johns ...

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 ...