The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Scientists with the ambitious Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project think they have potentially snagged a sample of DNA from the ...

When Gadgil joined the Indian Institute of Science in 1973, armed with a PhD in theoretical biology from Harvard University, ...

Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...

Blushing is one of those weird little things the body does that we rarely stop to think about—until we feel our cheeks ...

Mars looks familiar in telescope images, but its thin air, deep cold and radiation soaked surface would kill an unprotected ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

The way Sahaleanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...