With their powerful noses and passion for helping people, detection dogs remind us why dogs truly are man's best friend As a ...

New research revealing that ancient Africa's climate was unexpectedly rainy, challenging previous theories about human ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication ...