A new study has revealed that the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis may have not only been a genuine ancestor to modern huma...
Examinations of bones from several primate species have challenged the idea that modern humans evolved from knuckle-walk...
Swearing can help reduce the feeling of physical pain scientists have found, it is thought this could have been part of ...
An ancient fossil species over 11.9 million years old has been discovered in Spain. The species has an unusually flat an...
Scientists have used recordings of modern day apes being tickled in order to trace the origins of laughter back over 10 ...
Ancient mammals such as the ancestors of today's rhinos and tapirs that lived in the lands above the Arctic Circle 53 mi...
Fossils discovered near the city of Jiayuguan in China may reveal important clues to the evolution of Tyrannosaurus rex....
An Archaeopteryx fossil discovered 150 million years has been subject to one of the world's most powerful x-ray scans in...