"Our results point to a scenario where Modern and Archaic should be regarded as populations of an otherwise common human ...

Great Apes Joke Around, Suggesting Humor Is Older Than Humans ...

An archaeologist believes the tiny humanoid species Homo floresiensis may still exist in Indonesia. Here's how they could ...

The Planet of the Apes franchise is built on time travel, but will the more grounded modern-day reboot series ever utilize ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

Discoveries at an 8.7 million-year-old site could shake up the whole way science traditionally sees the birthplace of mankind.

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Given that apes are humanity’s closest relatives in ... These creatures are captivating precisely because they are so unlike and like humans, and one can’t help but wonder what goes on behind ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways.

Ever since King Kong swatted biplanes from the top of the Empire State Building in 1933, hairy creatures have occupied a place of honor in the cinematic pantheon. And in many cases, the Academy has ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...