Could humans evolve into an entirely new species? Scientists explore how Mars colonization, genetic engineering, and ...

A 1.45-million-year-old shin bone discovered in northern Kenya has revealed a disturbing possibility about human evolution: our ancient relatives may have been eating one another hundreds of thousands ...

Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the only living member of the ...

Dr. Martin's team is the first to have challenged the species attribution of Little Foot since it was unveiled in 2017. "Our findings challenge the current classification of Little Foot and highlight ...

A study by University of Liverpool researchers reveals that the species hardest to detect—those rarely seen, recorded, or included in scientific monitoring—are also the most vulnerable to human-driven ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flores, Indonesia is the home of the scientific study of small humans. Theories of retired professor Gregory Forth continue to ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

A small-statured human species, nicknamed hobbits, once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores. Formally named Homo floresiensis, these diminutive humans measured just over 3 feet (1 meter) tall.

A new analysis of GPS tracking data from 37 animal species, paired with cellphone location data from across the United States, shows that not only does animal behavior change when humans modify their ...