One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Around 25 million years ago, an evolutionary split occurred between our ancestors, the precursors of humans and apes, and ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of ...

A new analysis of some fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking may go back 7 million years in the human family tree.