A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...

New international study reveals how evolution and locomotion patterns, such as bipedalism, shaped bone structures through proteins present in the ...

IT’S easy to brush off your broken nails, especially at this time of the year. All the washing up over Christmas, the cold ...

A comprehensive genetic investigation led by Dr. Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital has uncovered ...

A radiologist and public health expert breaks down what we know about President Trump's CT scan, and what this means for his ...

An international study shows that bone mechanoadaptation evolved alongside locomotion. By comparing vertebrates with different movement strategies, researchers identified protein families in the bone ...

It’s a Saturday evening in November, and I’m deep in southern Colorado’s San Juan National Forest, lounging in a 102-degree ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth.