A new fossil discovery suggests that humans were not the only species capable of complex speech.
A new study has revealed that burying the deceased was a behavior shared by our Neanderthal cousins.
The American space agency has revealed that it has been developing a 6ft robot known as Valkyrie.
Evolutionary biologists believe that some animals possess superior cognitive abilities to humans.
The breakthrough was made as part of a project funded by the US National Human Genome Research Institute.
The company aiming to send humans on a one-way Mars trip is set to launch a robotic mission by 2018.
The Nonhuman Rights Project has been battling to grant some species of animals 'legal personhood'.
One of the world's leading hybridization experts believes that humans did not evolve entirely from apes.
A NASA sponsored mission concept aims to send humans to explore Phobos within the next 11 years.
The world's oldest known throwing spear tips appear to predate the human race by 85,000 years.
Superhuman healing could one day be possible thanks to the discovery of the 'fountain of youth' gene.
Scientists have warned that future generations could be a lot shorter than people who are alive today.
A skull dating back 1.8 million years has offered new insights in to the story of human evolution.
Mankind no longer needs to rely on evolution to obtain new sensory perceptions and abilities.
A strange report has emerged from Chile this week detailing sightings of a peculiar winged creature.
Genome scientist J. Craig Venter believes that we will soon be able to design and 'print' organisms.
The results of a recent study have revealed that a strange new state of human consciousness may exist.
New evidence suggests that climate change, not human hunting, was responsible for wiping out mammoths.
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough believes that natural selection in humans has all but stopped.
A previously unrecognized phobia of objects filled with holes could be a human survival instinct.