It is thought that our distant ancestors started walking on the ground up to 4.2 million years ago.
A cache of stone tools is calling in to question the timeline during which early humans left Africa.
A new study in to clothing lice has suggested we started wearing clothes 170,000 years ago.
Our ancestors would have likely been under constant danger from huge sabretooth cats.
A once-fertile land mass now swallowed by the Persian Gulf could have supported early humans.
Back in the 1960s both the USA and the Soviet Union raced to place the first humans on the moon.
Large numbers of enormous Humboldt squid have been devouring livestock and even attacking humans.
The world's first amateur rocket designed to carry humans in to space has been developed in Denmark.
A new university study has suggested that mammoths died out due to dwindling grasslands rather than being hunted.
Psychologists claim that we subconsciously mimic the accent of someone we are speaking to.
A 29-million-year-old skull has indicated that apes and Old World monkeys diverged far later than thought.
Obama's plan to land humans on as asteroid by the year 2025 have been met with uncertainty.
A new study has suggested that pet dogs are so reliant on humans that they can no longer think for themselves.
New research has boosted the so-called "thermal hypothesis" that argues humans first walked upright due to the heat.
In the late 20th century a group of scientists devised plans to send humans on a trip to the outer solar system.
Modern humans could owe their existence to a mass extinction of fish that happened 360 million years ago.
Scientists have warned that domestic household robots of the future could pose a threat to humans.
Today's humans could actually be part neanderthal claims a new study suggesting neanderthals mated with our ancestors.
According to a recent worldwide poll 1 in 5 adults believe aliens are here on Earth disguised as humans.
India's Chandrayaan-1 has found tunnels below the surface of the Moon that could one day be a home to humans.